Stimulus Fraud Nets Man $3.6 Million As Others Await Fourth Direct Payments KEY POINTS The perpetrator used the illicit funds to purchase a $100,000 Tesla The fraud scheme comes as a petition for more stimulus checks continue to gain momentum Authorities for the Department of Justice arrested a California man in connection with a fraud that netted him $3.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds as many await another round of stimulus checks. Lebnitz Tran, 40, of San Jose, was arrested on Thursday after allegedly submitting 27 fraudulent loan applications for the government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and at least seven for the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL).