Overview

• U.S. District Senior Judge Richard G. Andrews handed down the sentence Thursday in Wilmington, Delaware.
• Smallwood admitted directing schemes from 2020 to 2023 that used fake PPP and EIDL applications and fraudulent IRS filings to obtain $645,000.
• Investigators said he recruited others, used shell companies, and took kickbacks as part of the fraud.
• Prosecutors sought roughly 33 months, but the court imposed 18 months and matched restitution to the full loss amount.
• He will complete online criminology studies at West Virginia University before reporting, and he still faces separate felony weapons charges in New Jersey from a 2023 raid.