Suburban man gets 6.5 years in federal prison for COVID-19 relief fraud

CHICAGO — A suburban man was sentenced to six and a half years in prison last week for stealing over $3 million in COVID-19 relief fraud.

Francesco Distefano, 29, of Addison, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison on Wednesday for wire fraud.

Distefano and his co-defendant, Sargis Urumieh, 58, of Glendale, California, who pleaded guilty, applied for loans for a technology company Distefano owned…

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