Tag: PPP loan fraud
Wheeling Truck Boss Cashes in on COVID Chaos
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, 48, the ex-head of Righteous Brother’s Trucking, just confessed to ripping off nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 relief money. The Wheeling, WV native, now living the high life in Delray Beach, Florida, admitted to falsifying documents to snag funds from both the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury…
Wheeling Trucker Pilfered $300K in COVID Relief
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, the former head of Righteous Brother’s Trucking, wasn’t hauling freight – he was hauling federal cash. The Florida man is facing a decade in prison after federal investigators discovered he raked in as much as $300,000 in COVID-19 relief money he wasn’t entitled to. Temple allegedly used the funds…
Greer PPP Crook Gets 6+ Years
⏱ 3 min read Jonathan Wade Sumter, 54, is going back to the slammer after a federal judge hit him with over six years for a brazen scheme to steal over $1.8 million in Covid-19 relief funds. The scam, unfolding between June 2020 and January 2022, involved bogus applications for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and…
KY Woman Gets 44 Months in COVID Loan Scam
⏱ 2 min read London, KY – Nicole Pennington, 50, is trading her freedom for 44 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to fleecing the government out of over a million bucks in COVID-19 relief money. Judge Claria Horn Boom dropped the sentence Tuesday, finding Pennington guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy to launder…
Crypto Dreams & COVID Cash: Rideshare Driver Accused of $2M Scam
Los Angeles rideshare driver Bruce Choi is facing the music after federal agents snatched him at San Francisco International Airport Tuesday, capping a long-running investigation into a brazen COVID-19 relief fraud. The 34-year-old from Koreatown allegedly fabricated an entire business from thin air, then used a forged application to siphon off over $2 million in…
