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The three individuals were allegedly part of a six person team attempting to commit wire fraud. Author: Hope Sloop Updated: 2:14 PM EDT May 4, 2021 CLEVELAND — Editors note: The video in the player above is from a story published on March 10, 2021.  On Tuesday, Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury in Cleveland has indicted six individuals for allegedly partaking in a scheme to obtain $9 million in COVID-19 relief funds f...

Reply Six people are accused of trying to steal $9 million in COVID-19 relief funds, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. (Shutterstock) CLEVELAND — Six people are accused of lying on loan applications to steal $9 million in COVID-19 relief funds, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. A federal grand jury in Cleveland indicted Terrence Pounds, 44, from Holland, Ohio, Charles Tiller, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, Terri Davis, 30, of Tennessee, Randolph Nunn, 48, of Canton, Ohio, Sami...

Documents falsely claimed that applicants operated faith-based organizations and church Author: WTOL Newsroom Updated: 3:36 PM EDT May 4, 2021 TOLEDO, Ohio — Relief packages and incentives have been administered throughout the course of the pandemic in effort to help the economy and hardworking Americans. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) came together to create guaranteed relief funds to qualifying businesses under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and E...

Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury in Cleveland returned a 14-count indictment charging six individuals for their alleged roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $9 million in COVID-19 relief funds guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Terrence L. Pounds, of Holland, Ohio; Charles B. Tiller, of Columbus, Ohio; Terri Davis, of Old Hickory, Tennessee; ...

(Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images) April 27, 2021 6:46 PM ET Font Size: A former plastic surgeon from Sylvania, Ohio has pled guilty to a number of charges including sex trafficking, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Ohio. Manish Raj Gupta, 50, who also goes by the name Manny Gupta, pled guilty Monday to “sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and illegally dispensing a controlled substance: in federal court,�...

email Officials say he spent solicited donations on himself instead of social justice. Published 4 days ago Written by Madison J. Gray An Ohio man is under federal indictment for allegedly using a phony nonprofit Facebook page with the Black Lives Matter name to rob donors of more than $450,000, the FBI says. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a federal grand jury in Cleveland returned a four-count indictment of money laundering and wire fraud against Tyree Conyers-Page, who go...

Prosecutors say Mr. Page created and operated a Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta (BLMGA) page on Facebook. He registered it as a nonprofit with state and federal officials in 2016, but its tax-exempt status as a charity was revoked in 2019. BLMGA’s nonprofit corporation was dissolved that year for failure to file the necessary paperwork. Mr. Page didn’t notify Facebook that his charity tax exemption was revoked and the group remained listed as a nonprofit on Facebook, raking in hundred...

Sicalides | Troutman Pepper PHILADELPHIA – Wawa is seeking to dismiss a New Jersey developer’s anti-trust litigation against a Pennsylvania competitor, which claimed the latter is conspiring to prevent it from developing a major retail project featuring the Royal Farms Convenience Store in the vicinity of a Merck headquarters. Upper Gwynedd Equities, LLC, and Retail Sites, LLC of Maple Shade, N.J. first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District o...

Feb 23, 2021 (Cleveland) - Ward 4 Cleveland Councilman Kenneth Johnson was arrested Tuesday morning by FBI agents, after a federal grand jury handed down at 15-count indictment charging him with federal program theft. Two other men were also indicted. Johnson is charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit federal program, six counts of federal program theft, five counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, one count of tampering with a witness, and one count of ...

Northeast Ohio doctor pleads guilty to federal charges for allegedly coercing 4 young girls to perform sex acts Albert Aiad-Toss (Source: Mahoning County Jail) By Rachel Vadaj | February 12, 2021 at 1:04 AM EST - Updated February 12 at 8:49 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Youngstown-area physician was pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday for sex trafficking charges involving children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 52-year-old Albert Aiad-T...