Sanjay Patel, a former Georgia-based attorney, has entered a guilty plea for obtaining nearly $300,000 in fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) earmarked for COVID-19 relief and engaging in money laundering over $250,000 from separate investor fraud schemes. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Patel’s sentencing is scheduled for December 12. U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan emphasized the seriousness of Patel’s crimes, stating, “It is especially aggravating that Patel, an attorney, not only used his professional standing to commit money laundering, but he also defrauded the American taxpayer out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”