A man formerly incarcerated at Dillwyn Correctional Center has been charged alongside two Newport News residents with fraudulently taking around $246,000 from COVID relief funds while in jail.
According to court records, throughout unknown dates from June 2020 until January 2021, 42-year-old former inmate Antonio Clark was allegedly working with two women — Alicia Clark and Teonna Williams — to take personal information from around 17 inmates at Dillwyn Correctional Center and use it to apply for unemployment benefits.
All three people are facing charges related to wire and mail fraud as well as conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, following the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) approving around $246,346 in fraudulently submitted benefit applications, court documents said. --->READ MORE HERE
A Chicago tax preparer was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for orchestrating a $3.6 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme.
Farooq Khan, 31, submitted dozens of bogus loan applications for defunct businesses through his tax preparation company.
Khan owned Hannan Tax Services in Chicago. From May 2020 through October 2021, he prepared and submitted at least 30 fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loans.
Court documents reveal Khan knew the companies were non-operational and ineligible. He falsified employee numbers and tax records for the defunct businesses.
The scheme netted approximately $3.6 million in fraudulent distributions. Khan personally pocketed about $1.2 million of the stolen funds. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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