DOWNTOWN — Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, together with New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang, announced that six individuals have been indicted for submitting fraudulent loan applications and forgiveness requests for fictitious businesses between April 2021 and October 2022.
The defendants, all members of the same family, allegedly conspired to steal more than $166,000 in federal COVID-19 relief funds through fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and other pandemic aid.
“Pandemic relief programs were created to help small businesses and workers survive an unprecedented crisis,” Gonzalez said. “We allege these defendants abused that system for personal gain by inventing companies and falsifying records…