When David Adler Staveley's unlocked car was found near the Atlantic Ocean in May 2020, with his wallet inside, family members assumed the Massachusetts man was dead. After.
It didn’t help the case of the rapper, whose real name is Fontrell Antonio Baines, that the names on the envelopes he flashed in the video were real victims of his identity theft, according to court documents.
There’s also David Adler Staveley, one of the first people to be charged last year with pandemic fraud. After he was arrested and released on home detention, he faked a suicide, leaving his car near the ocean and a suicide note inside. He pleaded guilty last week to charges of conspiracy stemming from the loan scam and failure to appear, stemming from his fake suicide.
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This week marks one year since David Adler Staveley faked his suicide before going on the run from the law for almost two months after he and a co-conspirator were the first in the nation to be charged with fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program in May 2020.
Last week, Staveley pleaded guilty in a federal court in Rhode Island to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and failure to appear in court.
Also last week, federal prosecutors in California and Texas secured convictions in PPP fraud cases where defendants tried to bilk taxpayers out of millions in forgivable loans meant to save jobs and keep businesses afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. The major convictions within a span of two days underscore how the Justice Department is cracking down on fraud cases from COVID-19 relief.