Because light reflectivity.
Posted on 03/13/2024 4:18:18 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
SEATTLE (KOMO) — The leader of a fraud ring that stole more than $6.8 million in pandemic benefits from nearly every major COVID-19 pandemic assistance program was sentenced to prison.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), 29-year-old Paradise Williams personally received more than $2 million in fraudulent proceeds and spent the money on luxury cars, lavish trips, cosmetic surgery, jewelry and designer goods. The DOJ said Williams was sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering.
“Paradise Williams was relentless in her efforts to steal pandemic benefits throughout the entire duration of our national emergency, and it is unconscionable that she funded a life of luxury by stealing millions in taxpayer funds that should have prevented King County residents from being evicted in the winter,” said U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman.
Records in the case say Williams personally submitted over 125 fraudulent applications from June 2020 to February 2022 for the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program funds administered by King County, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program, and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act unemployment benefits.
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Why only 5 years?
Call me when they arrest fauci and his funders for the scam itself
Considering the sentences of the Jan 6th political prisoners, Paradise seems to have gotten off lightly.
Our son and his wife were the unwitting victims of a identity theft scam, in which “they” applied and were given a $20,000 PPP loan, which of course they never saw a penny. The whole scam was perpetrated through a company that applied for these loans in their name, and has long since vanished from the scene.
Now the small business administration is coming after them to repay the loan plus penalties and interest! Fortunately there has been enough of a track record of the fraud surrounding the PPP program that gives them an avenue to seek relief. Unfortunately it will cost them in time, aggravation, some money, and a mountain of paperwork.
How awful. Hope they can get this straightened out.
Because light reflectivity.
Her co-defendants only got 18 months. So, with time served, good time and whatever, they’ll be out before the cell door swings shut. Who couldn’t do that for a few million?
Great question. Maybe they have sympathy for a kindred spirit who might otherwise have a future in politics.
She’ll argue that she was merely accelerating her reparations payment.
Amazing how the government always has departments for massive spending but not one for the how it gets spent.
NOT SHARING “HER” REPARATIONS.....
Calif gov Newsom stole $1.6 billion in april 2020. He said the money was to buy masks from a communist chinese BUS company. No masks ever showed up. This I bet was his buy in to run for president. He spread the money around.
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