Phillip Collins of Robeson County, North Carolina pleaded guilty on June 29 to wire fraud conspiracy in a COVID-era SBA loan scheme. The pattern is small, ordinary, and still running through other names.
Currin Caridine ran a kickback assembly line through the PPP program, recruiting Mainers and New Hampshire residents into fake applications for businesses that did not exist. The Small Business Administration paid out roughly $475,000 before the machine got names.
Jarrell Curne told a bank his entertainment company had a hundred employees and a $1.5 million payroll. It had neither. The wire cleared in forty-eight hours, and the federal government just sentenced him for what came after.