According to the Justice Department, a NASA worker has agreed to plead guilty to defrauding the federal government through more than $150,000 in COVID-19 relief cash to fund an illegal marijuana growing operation.
The U. S. Attorney’s Office The U. S. Department of Homeland Security for the Central District of California announced Monday that Armen Hovanesian admitted to lying to the government about loan programs about how he would use revenue from the Economic Disaster Loan Program, which was intended to supply other people and businesses during the pandemic. Hovanesian was running at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The money, from the Cares Act, was meant to serve as a lifeline for Americans suffering to help their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the plea agreement, Hovanesian filed 3 loan programs between June 2020 and October 2020 and earned $151,900 in relief funds. Officials said he had qualified in those programs that he would use “all profits” to mitigate the economic damage caused by the pandemic.
“Hovanesian used those proceeds for his own prohibited private profits to pay off a private real estate debt and fund his illegal marijuana cultivation,” the Justice Department said in a statement.
Authorities said he also made fraudulent statements about the gross profits his corporations had generated last year.
Hovanesian faces one count of cord fraud and a 20-year sentence in federal prison. He is expected to make his first court appearance on Aug. 11.
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