pandemic fraud

BROWARD COUNTY, FL – Four residents of Broward County have been arrested for their alleged roles in a coordinated scheme to defraud federal COVID-19 relief programs out of hundreds of …

LOS ANGELES — Multiple residents of the San Fernando Valley and Glendale are among more than a dozen defendants federally charged with defrauding over $25 million in COVID-19 relief funds …

MASON CITY, Iowa — Yovany Ciero, a 48-year-old Cuban immigrant and former army sergeant, has been convicted in federal court for his leading role in a multi-million-dollar COVID-19 loan fraud …

MACON, Ga. — Jessica Crawford, a 34-year-old tax preparer from Athens, Georgia, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for orchestrating a $3.5 million tax fraud scheme involving …

Kimberly Harris, a 49-year-old woman from Columbia, was arrested for her involvement in a fraudulent scheme that stole thousands in pandemic assistance funds. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) …

Leeds, UK — A Glasgow man has been convicted of defrauding Leeds City Council of over £710,000 by posing as an employee of Greggs and falsely claiming pandemic support funds. …

A Nigerian man residing in Canada, Fatiu Ismaila Lawal, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after defrauding U.S. pandemic aid programs …

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, a 57-year-old man from Huntington Beach, has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for defrauding investors in bogus COVID-19 …

A former Atlanta city attorney, Shelitha Robertson, 62, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in a massive $15 million pandemic loan fraud scheme. Records indicate …