Steven Hendren pleaded guilty in St. Louis federal court to wire fraud after pulling $284,840.44 out of a Missouri pandemic housing program by inventing tenants, leases, and rent rolls. The money was supposed to keep people in their homes. Some of it went to a 2020 GMC Yukon.
Krandon Wenger, 25, of Lititz, pleaded guilty to wire fraud after his company K20 Wireless changed subscriber addresses to tribal lands to harvest a higher federal reimbursement. The records moved. The customers never did.
Christnel Orisca wore a Suffolk County corrections officer uniform from late 2021 through December 2024. The pandemic relief system, on paper, thought he had no job at all. The gap between those two stories is what a federal judge settled this week.
A Rochester man joins the long line of defendants ordered to repay millions in the largest pandemic fraud in American history. The meals were on paper. The money was not.