Indictment — No. 1:25-cr-00354 (Dkt. 1, N.D. Ill.)

Summary

A sealed indictment filed June 26, 2025 as Document 1 in United States v. Dexter M. Crawford, Jr., Timika Royston, Orlando Patrick and Jermie Miller, Case 1:25-cr-00354, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, citing Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343 and 1957(a). Counts One through Nine charge wire fraud, alleging that from about April 2020 through about August 2022 Crawford submitted PPP and EIDL applications for entities he controlled and helped the other defendants apply, with false employee, revenue and payroll figures. The grand jury charges schemes to obtain approximately $496,525 with Royston, approximately $860,823 with Patrick and approximately $633,796 with Miller. Later counts charge Crawford with monetary transactions including approximately $37,528 in Bitcoin, and Count Thirteen charges Miller over a $10,672 payment.

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