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The leader of a scheme that defrauded the government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced to prison.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri announced on Wednesday, June 25, that Renetta Golden-Larimore, 56, of Kansas City, has been sentenced to 4 years and 3 months behind prison bars.
Court documents noted that the sentence follows Golden-Larimore’s guilty pleas to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in two separate federal indictments. The scheme she is accused of resulted in a more than $900,000 loss to the Small Business Administration.
Investigators indicated that Golden-Larimore admitted that between February 2021 and May 2022, she led 21 others in a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program. She would file PPP loans for fake businesses and charge thousands of dollars for the service. In total, she is believed to have made more than $75,000 off the crime. --->READ MORE HERE
A Waterbury woman pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing approximately $360,000 through fraud schemes across companies in Connecticut and New York.
Marlenin Vito, 46, allegedly stole nearly $310,820 in about 500 fraudulent checks while working as a Medicaid coordinator in Stamford, according to court documents. During her time at the company, she was responsible for helping nursing home residents apply for Medicaid reimbursements, handling patient trust accounts and payments made on behalf of residents.
“Many of the residents were not healthy enough or mentally capable of tracking their own expenses or monitoring the balances of their own trust accounts,” a press release from the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut said.
For over a year, from about Dec. 2019 through May 2021, Vito allegedly forged signatures on the company’s checks and lied about giving cash to the residents.
Vito created and provided to family members false account statements that misrepresented the balances in the residents’ trust accounts, according to statements in court and additional court documents. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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