SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A Shelby Township man was sentenced this month for his role in what authorities are calling a multimillion-dollar Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme.
Samer Kammo, 46, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by a federal court judge in Detroit Feb. 13, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Jerome Gorgon. As part of his sentence, Kammo was also ordered to pay $2,493,348.50 in restitution.
Authorities said Kammo and his co-conspirators — Rita Shaba, 39, of Macomb Township, and Christina Anasi, 35, of Shelby Township — submitted fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program applications for several businesses. The applications misrepresented payroll information and falsely certified that the loan funds would be used for permissible business-related purposes. The defendants, according to authorities, also submitted fictitious payroll, health insurance, bank and tax records to support the loan applications…