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Virginia couple charged in $1.5M coronavirus fraud scheme
2020-06-29
[NYPOST] A married Virginia couple was busted trying to flee the country after they illegally received nearly $1.5 million in federal funds meant for struggling businesses during the pandemic, prosecutors said.

Monica Magdalena Jaworska, 43, and her husband, Tarik Jaafar, 42, were arrested at JFK Airport in New York for the alleged scam earlier this month after buying one-way tickets to Poland, according to US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia.

Prosecutors allege the pair filed 18 different loan applications under the federal Paycheck Protection Program, using bogus IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
forms to claim they were supporting dozens of employees.

They were ultimately approved for four loans totaling more than $1.4 million, prosecutors said.

But an investigation revealed the businesses didn’t really exist, according to an affidavit filed by the Small Business Administration.

The couple bought the plane tickets after officers contacted them for an interview, prosecutors said.

Most of the funds were frozen but prosecutors said Jaafar was able to withdraw at least $30,000 in cash.

Posted by:Fred

#2  Jaworska from Jaafar? And they even used her middle name...you just know she is naughty when someone gets the "middle name treatment".
Posted by: Clem   2020-06-29 06:10  

#1  Monica Magdalena Jaworska, 43, and her husband, Tarik Jaafar, 42

An interesting combination.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-06-29 03:14  

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