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Date: 11-09-2022

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United States of America v. Deeshawn Gadson

Case Number: 1:21-cr-00122

Judge: William E. Smith

Court: United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (Providence County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office

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Description: Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.

Deeshawn Gadson, 32, fraudulently field an application for unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, and received more than $7,000 in ill-gotten payments.

In April 2020, Gadson, who lived and worked in Rhode Island, submitted online applications to the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (RIDLT) for benefits that had been made available by the CARES Act. In May 2020, Gadson began receiving benefits from RIDLT. He received approximately $20,302 in unemployment benefits.

Shortly after he began receiving these benefit payments from the RIDLT, Gadson submitted a fraudulent online application to the Arizona State Department of Economic Security, falsely stating that he lived and worked in Arizona. As a result, Gadson was paid $7,170 in PAU program benefits that he was not legally entitled to receive.

Gadson was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith to thirty days of incarceration to be followed by three years of federal supervised release, with the first three months to be served in home confinement with electronic monitoring. Gadson was also ordered to pay $7,170 in restitution to the Arizona State Department of Economic Safety.

This case, as well as other instances of criminal activity related to fraudulent applications for pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits are being investigated jointly by the FBI, Rhode Island State Police, and the U.S. Department of Labor – Office of Inspector General. Cases are jointly reviewed, charged, and prosecuted by a team of prosecutors that include Assistant U.S. Attorneys Denise M. Barton, Stacey P. Veroni, and G. Michael Seaman, and Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General John M. Moreira, chief of the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Public Integrity Unit.

Wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343, which provides:

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtain- ing money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or prom- ises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communica- tion in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or arti- fice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, trans- ferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emer- gency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.


Outcome: The defendant is sentenced to a term of 30 days of incarceration; 3 years of Supervised Release with special conditions; Special Assessment: $100.00; Restitution: $7,170.00 (interest waived); No fine imposed.

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