MIAMI – A former sergeant with the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (MDCRD), was once sentenced on Friday to 18 months in jail for COVID-19 aid fraud and also will have to pay greater than $432,000 in restitution.
Arashio Harris, 49, up to now pleaded in charge over fees that he submitted fraudulent programs for 2 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, two Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and an EIDL advance.
In addition to his place as an MDCRD sergeant, he’s additionally the landlord and president of The Good Family Property Solutions Inc. (“Good Family”), of Miami, which nonetheless has an lively record on www.sunbiz.org and The Flying Lions LLC (“Flying Lions”), which additionally has an lively record on www.sunbiz.org.
According to prosecutors, Harris, with the assistance of an affiliate, submitted to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) a false and fraudulent EIDL utility within the title of Good Family, in quest of each an EIDL and an EIDL advance.
As a results of this fraudulent utility, Good Family gained a $9,000 EIDL advance that didn’t want to be repaid and $14,500 in EIDL mortgage proceeds from SBA.
Harris additionally submitted a false and fraudulent EIDL utility to the SBA for The Flying Lions grossly overstating the corporate’s gross revenues and selection of staff, permitting him to fraudulently download $150,000 in EIDL proceeds from the SBA, in accordance to court docket paperwork.
Harris persevered his fraud scheme via getting two PPP loans within the title of Good Family. In July 2020, Harris submitted a PPP mortgage utility exaggerating Good Family’s payroll.
In enhance of this fraudulent utility, Harris submitted a number of pretend and fabricated 2019 IRS paperwork claiming that Good Family had a complete source of revenue of over $a million and had paid wages and salaries that yr of over $768,000.
The paperwork incorporated false IRS Form W-2s and Good Family payroll data for those “supposed” staff. Harris got a $129,275 PPP mortgage from an SBA-approved PPP lender.
In February 2021, Harris then attempted to get every other PPP mortgage for Good Family to benefit from the extra PPP aid being introduced to companies that had suffered income losses in 2020 on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Again, that utility relied at the fraudulent source of revenue and payroll numbers used to download the primary PPP mortgage, and the applying bundle incorporated fraudulent 2019 IRS bureaucracy and fabricated Good Family payroll data for the ones “supposed employees.” His Good Family corporate got a Second Draw PPP mortgage of $129,276 from a special SBA-approved PPP lender, in accordance to prosecutors.
Harris was once sentenced on Friday, Oct. 27. Upon the finishing touch of his 18-month sentence, he’ll be on supervised free up for 3 years.
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