WASHINGTON, (Sputnik) – Two individuals in the US state of Florida have pleaded guilty to filing fraudulent loan applications for more than $1.1 million in aid from a relief program for businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the Department of Justice said in a press release on Monday.
The Justice Department explained that, on August 26, 2020, Latoya Stanley and Johnny Philus, both of Miami, were originally charged via a complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida.
In her application, Stanley claimed to generate more than $800,000 in income and to employ five individuals from a farm based in the yard of her Miami home. In his application, Philus claimed to generate $400,000 in income and to employ ten individuals from a farm. It was late proven that they employed no one and the farms did not exist, the release noted.
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