A Bergen County man received $150,000 in federal loans to help an already-shuttered restaurant get through the COVID-19 crisis, then spent the money on high-end merchandise, restaurant meals and a gondola ride at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, the U.S. Attorney s Office alleged Friday.
Federal authorities say George Leguen, 46, of Paramus, applied to the Small Business Administration in August 2020 for a loan to support his Manhattan eatery, One Fifty One Restaurant & Lounge.
On the application, Leguen allegedly wrote the restaurant made $1.38 million the year before the pandemic, suffered $70,000 in rental losses because of the novel coronavirus and had a dozen employees as of Jan. 31, 2020. The federal government depended on this information to figure out how much money to loan Leguen, the complaint said.
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