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USA V. Merchant

Federal criminal case — Defendant surnamed Merchant. First name not listed in public docket.
📁 00019 📅 2017-07-13 📍 TX
0 Arrest Records
0 TDCJ Inmates
5 OFAC Sanctions
0 FBI Most Wanted
0 Healthcare Excl.
8 Related Cases
13.1M Records Searched
Case Synopsis
This is the public record summary for Criminal court case 00019, indexed by Open Public Records on July 13, 2017. The case is filed by USA against Merchant (Texas). Below you'll find enrichment from multiple authoritative public sources including federal sanctions and wanted lists, the Texas TDCJ prisoner registry (135k records), the HHS-OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities, named-arrest feeds, and 8 related cases in our 12.9-million-record archive.
Filing Details
[Transfer Out - Probation/Supervised Release] (31)
Deep Web Search · Merchant 1 MATCHED
We checked press coverage for Merchant and surfaced 1 relevant article (out of 10 total) that mention the name and share geographic or legal context with this case. Below also: deep-search links across 11 platforms.
📰 Press Coverage · 1 matching article
San Antonio builder uses new Texas law in suit over $2.5M in merchant cash advances
Mon, 18 May 2026 19:41:00 GMT ✓ Matches: surname match state legal-context
The lawsuit comes less than a year after Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation creating a new chapter of the Texas Finance Code to regulate the industry.…
Updated weekly · 11 public search platforms linked
Compliance · Sanctions Check 5 FLAGGED
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Check ?The U.S. Treasury keeps a list of people and companies that Americans can't legally do business with, including terrorists, drug traffickers, and sanctioned foreign officials. It's called the SDN list. We refresh our copy every day from OpenSanctions.org. It currently has 19,700 entries. ⚠ 5 Flag
We checked the U.S. Treasury's sanctions list (19,700 entries). We checked everyone named as a party in this case, 2 names in total (Merchant, USA), against the list.
⚠️ state enterprise kerch sea commercial port
SDN entry, matched on the defendant name "Merchant". Strong match.
⚠️ state enterprise evpatoria sea commercial port
SDN entry, matched on the defendant name "Merchant". Strong match.
⚠️ merchant supreme co.
SDN entry, matched on the defendant name "Merchant". Strong match.
⚠️ state enterprise feodosia sea trading port
SDN entry, matched on the defendant name "Merchant". Strong match.
⚠️ state enterprise yalta sea trading port
SDN entry, matched on the defendant name "Merchant". Strong match.
📰 Latest Government Feeds · State + Federal Sources

🏛️ Latest Government Feeds 8

Direct from TX state + federal sources · no aggregators
doj_news Former Dallas Housing Authority Employee Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Stealing Government Funds May 27, 2026
FBI Field Office Alleged Active-Shooter Illegal Alien in Kings Colony Confrontation Facing Federal Charges May 26, 2026
doj_news Felon convicted for selling dozens of firearms and hundreds of ammunition rounds May 26, 2026
doj_news Houston man sentenced to federal prison as part of Homeland Security Task Force investigation in ATM hook and chain crime spree involving Prosper banks May 26, 2026
FBI Field Office Former Contractor Sent to Federal Prison for Hacking Employer’s Network in Retaliation for Termination May 22, 2026
FBI Field Office Bissonnet Sex Trafficker Convicted for Conspiracy Involving Adult and Child Victims May 20, 2026
Federal Agency SEC Investor Advisory Committee to Host June 4 Meeting May 27, 2026
Federal Agency Electric Aircraft: FAA Is Evaluating Designs for Certification and Considering Long-Term Regulatory Approaches May 27, 2026
Sources: state appellate courts, state AGs, DOJ, SEC, FTC, FDA, DOL, Federal Reserve, OCC, and more. Direct from .gov — never aggregated.
People sharing the surname Merchant ?We searched our archive of 12.9 million U.S. court cases for anyone else with the same last name. Most recent cases shown first. Same surname doesn't mean same person, it could be a relative or someone unrelated who happens to share the name. 8 Found
We checked our archive of 12.9 million court cases. We looked through Texas court records for anyone else named Merchant. We found 8 other cases with that surname, listed below so you can compare them and see whether it's the same person, a relative, or unrelated.
Dean V. Merchant
Case #00044 · 2014-11-18 · Texas
Emmett Merchant And Duane W Merchant
Case #35162 · 2014-11-20 · Texas
The Pos Geeks LLC V. Cs Merchant Services LLC
Case #00668 · 2014-11-25 · Texas
Whitlock V. Merchant
Case #00119 · 2014-12-05 · Texas
Nasir A Merchant
Case #36021 · 2014-12-09 · Texas
John Merchant And Lu Anne Merchant
Case #80454 · 2014-12-17 · Texas
Akbar Merchant
Case #35745 · 2014-12-23 · Texas
USA V. Merchant
Case #00074 · 2015-01-07 · Texas
How We Built This Enrichment
📡 Live data pulls
2026-05-27 17:18 EDT · Edge cache 30 days
Every section above represents a real search against an authoritative public source. We query 10+ federal and state databases in parallel on each page load, cache results for 30 days, and refresh sources on their natural cadence: OFAC (daily), FBI Wanted (real-time), HHS-OIG LEIE (weekly), TDCJ scrape (real-time, Texas only), arrest feeds (varies by city).
📊 Records searched on this page
Total volume
On this page we checked Merchant against: Open Public Records archive (12.9 million court cases), U.S. Treasury sanctions list (19,700 entries), FBI most-wanted list (990 fugitives), Federal healthcare exclusion list (83,300 providers), 6 public arrest databases, and Texas state prison roster (about 135,000 inmates). In total, about 13.14 million records across 6 sources for this one case.

📰 Statewide Federal Enforcement Context — Texas CONTEXT · NOT CASE-SPECIFIC

FBI-Houston
Alleged Active-Shooter Illegal Alien in Kings Colony Confrontation Facing Federal Charges Recent
FBI-Houston
Former Contractor Sent to Federal Prison for Hacking Employer’s Network in Retaliation for Termination Recent
FBI-SanAntonio
Operation Leader and 10 Others Plead Guilty in Prolific Human Smuggling and Money Laundering Case Recent
Aggregated from DOJ U.S. Attorneys, FBI field offices, SEC, FTC, OCC, and IRS-CI press feeds. 3 items shown.

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