Posted on 10/14/2023 8:24:26 AM PDT by lowbridge
Two Internal Revenue Service employees were arrested, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said on Friday.
Tina White, 36, of Bellport, and Shawana Williams, 45, of Centereach, were accused of stealing thousands of dollars by filing separate, fraudulent Small Business Administration loan applications, Tierney said.
"These individuals are alleged to have stolen government funds by abusing a program intended to help legitimate small business owners pay their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic," Tierney said in a news release. "I want to thank the United States Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for working with my office to investigate and prosecute those who would steal taxpayer funds."
On May 7, 2020, and July 6, 2020, respectively, White and Williams filed COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications with the Small Business Administration and claimed to be the owners of businesses in need of financial assistance because of the economic impact of the pandemic, prosecutors said.
White claimed to be the chief operating officer of an agricultural business, while Williams claimed to be the chief operating officer of a medical services business, investigators said.
Neither business existed, however, the DA said.
White received $6,000 and Williams received $4,000 as initial cash advancements while their respective loan applications were being processed, officials said. Both loan applications were ultimately denied, but White and Williams never returned the illicit money they received, authorities said.
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the IDF should have used DC for practice before invading Gaza...Gov’t Employee....Hamas Fighter...What’s the difference?
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The IRS rarely investigates their own employees. Fckn grifters, the whole lot.
Would you loan money to someone named Shawana?
Lol.
(Somebody go ahead and call me racist. I didn’t used to be one—but I am now.)
Shawana...let me guess.
At least her name wasn’t Iguana like the “oyster slurper”.
Dunno. Reparations or something?
Don’t know many white folks with Shawanna as a first name...unless maybe she’s a New York Apache.
This seems to be a habit of black government employees. When I see a government employee, politician, or pastor defraud a charity or welfare program it is frequently black.
Two down, several thousand to go.
This goes for jobs and respect for the rule of law also.
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