Tag: PPP loan fraud
Aisha Jackson, PPP Loan Fraud, Texas 2021
⏱ 2 min read Aisha Jackson, a 34-year-old woman from Pflugerville, Texas, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for defrauding the Paycheck Protection Loan (PPP) program. On March 10, 2021, Jackson submitted a fake PPP application to a loan processor, using a stolen social security number and fabricated documents. She received $16,628…
Damian Halfkenny, Wire Fraud, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 2 min read A retired Massachusetts State Police Sergeant, Damian Halfkenny, 54, of Boston, was sentenced for scamming a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. In 2021, Halfkenny, who was earning $160,378 per year as a full-time Sergeant, submitted a false PPP loan application for his real estate business, claiming a monthly payroll expense of…
Natayah Adams, PPP Loan Fraud, Maryland 2021
⏱ 2 min read Natayah Adams, a 44-year-old former Department of Education employee from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, has agreed to pay $161,248.30 to settle allegations of scamming the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for COVID-19 relief. In 2021, Adams submitted three false loan applications to different lenders, claiming her jewelry resale business on Etsy brought in…
Henry J. Schappert, False Statements on PPP Loan Application, Iowa 2021
⏱ 2 min read Henry J. Schappert, a 57-year-old Urbandale businessman, pleaded guilty on June 1, 2026, to making false statements on a PPP loan application and false declarations during subsequent bankruptcy proceedings in Des Moines, Iowa. Schappert, who operated a business called Allied Exteriors, submitted a PPP loan application in May 2021 that significantly…
Amanda Wilkerson, Tax Fraud, Louisiana 2026
⏱ 2 min read Amanda Wilkerson, a 57-year-old woman from Marrero, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to tax fraud and PPP loan fraud on April 21, 2026. Wilkerson, who owned and operated Divine Purpose Home Care LLC, a home healthcare business, withheld taxes from her employees’ paychecks but failed to report and remit them to the IRS.…
VSoft Corporation, PPP Loan Fraud, North Carolina 2023
⏱ 2 min read VSoft Corporation, a banking and payment solutions provider based in Atlanta, Georgia, has been caught in a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan scam in North Carolina. The company allegedly misrepresented its employee count to obtain a second round PPP loan of $1,259,732.00, claiming to be a small business with less than…
The Buffalo Club, PPP Loan Fraud, New York 2021
⏱ 3 min read The Buffalo Club, a private membership club in upstate New York, swiped a $1.5 million Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan meant for small businesses struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2021, the club applied for the loan and claimed it was eligible, despite SBA guidance that private clubs like…
Frank Hamilton, Loan Shark Scheme, California 2023
⏱ 3 min read Frank Hamilton, 55, of Simi Valley, California, is headed to federal prison for 5 and a half years after admitting he helped a network of crooks fleece banks and the Small Business Administration out of $6.09 million. Judge Wendy Beetlestone handed down the 66-month sentence in Philadelphia yesterday, along with two…
Jonathan Wade Sumter, PPP Loan Fraud, South Carolina 2022
⏱ 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…
Bradley Temple, COVID-19 Relief Money Embezzlement, West Virginia 2023
⏱ 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…
