CLEVELAND (WJW) – Northeast Ohio is at the center of two COVID-era loan-fraud cases investigated by the Department of Justice.
According to a release sent to Fox 8 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, the agency reports that it was part of three cases included in a nationwide anti-fraud enforcement initiative. This initiative was led by multiple federal agencies targeting the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.
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The Northern District of Ohio was at the center of a case from July. 36-year-old Travius Holloway, of Richmond Heights, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. He got a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loan for his production company for $121,865, along with $370,982 in fraudulent COVID-era unemployment benefits. Holloway is set to be sentenced on Oct. 20 and could face up to 20 years in prison.
This comes as a previously announced case from July charged a Lorain County mother, along with her two sons, with conspiracy to defraud the IRS and COVID-era programs for more than $5 million…