A North Carolina woman is facing a potential sentence of three decades in prison for trying to defraud the federal government to secure COVID relief funds.
On Monday, November 2, the United States Attorney’s Office East District of North Carolina announced in a press release that Pamela Humphrey, a Fayetteville Tech Community College Professor, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Humphrey, 44, fraudulently submitted an application to the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) to get COVID relief funds for a business located in Robeson County. On that application, she made false statements about the number of employees and the gross revenue of her business.
The application was approved, and she received $150,000 into her personal bank account. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) investigated the case…