In April 2022, McClarrin applied for loan forgiveness for the $21,000 PPP loan. He stated on the application forms that he had 20 employees and had spent $20,000 of the loan on payroll costs.

The PPP loan initiative was created via the CARES Act in 2020 to help small businesses cover payroll and certain other expenses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hill filed another PPP loan application with a fifth bank on June 11, 2020, on behalf of We Show Up Detailing. On the borrower application form, Hill gave another person’s name and Social ...

Dennis then submitted a second fraudulent PPP loan application on April 10, 2021, using the same false IRS form that he used to obtained the first loan.

Between April and September 2020, the brothers conspired to submit eight fraudulent PPP loan applications on behalf of companies they owned or controlled.

Ernest Bernard Gonder, 41, of Port St. Lucie, and former Broward Sheriff’s Office detention lieutenant accused of fraudulently obtaining $167,750 in Paycheck Protection Program loans.

Working with an associate, on June 29, 2020, Harris submitted a false and fraudulent PPP loan application falsely claiming that Oregen had 10 employees and a monthly payroll of over $50,000 per month.

A Cross Lanes woman who pleaded guilty to a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme has been sentenced, prosecutors said.