WASHINGTON ( DC News Now ) — Newly unsealed court documents reveal years of bank fraud conspiracies and bribery schemes involving D.C. government officials and employees.
The unsealed documents include a plea agreement signed in early August by Allieu Badara Kamara, Jr., who was the CEO and Executive Director of Life Deeds, an area nonprofit that serves at-risk youth and adults. Some time after White was arrested, Kamara stepped down from his role – a decision that according to the organization , “was made mutually in the best interests of both parties.”
As revealed in the court documents, Kamara pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Bribery, stemming from schemes that have gone on for at least four years in total.
DC Councilmember Trayon White accused of bribery, taking cash, gifts
The Bank Fraud Conspiracy
According to his plea, between April 2020 through at least August 2022, Kamara and three co-conspirators submitted applications for pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans with false and fraudulent information.