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Aug. 16 – SPOKANE – A Spokane man has been sentenced to five years of probation for COVID-19 ransom fraud, according to a press release from the U. S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern Washington.
Roshon Edward Thomas, 42, convicted in federal court of fraudulently securing a COVID-19 relief investment for small businesses, according to the statement. This is the first conviction in a case brought through eastern Washington’s COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force since its previous inception. this year, according to the statement.
In March 2020, President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act into law. The CARES Act provided a number of systems through which eligible small businesses can apply for and download relief financing to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic, adding the Disaster Economic Loan Program. The EIDL program provided low-interest loans that may be deferred until the end of the pandemic to provide “bridge” financing to small businesses to maintain their operations closures and other economic problems caused by the pandemic.
According to court documents and leaked data in court proceedings, Thomas fraudulently discharged at least $54,900 in COVID-19 relief investments through two EIDL loans he discharged in July and August 2020 for an alleged clothing design and tattoo parlor company. In May, Thomas pleaded to blame the introduction of fake and fraudulent programs in the United States and admitted to using false and fraudulent data to download EIDL funding for any of the companies. he will be forced to keep his task and completely reverse the budget he fraudulently downloaded, according to the statement.