Posted on 05/04/2021 8:23:21 PM PDT by DoodleBob
BEVERLY, MA —A large pepperoni with a side of warm and fuzzy mittens?
The former owner of Rasta Pasta Pizzeria in Beverly is facing federal fraud charges after the U.S. Attorney's Office accused Dana McIntyre of using $660,000 in Paycheck Protection Program funds for personal purposes, including to buy alpacas for a farm in Vermont.
The Grafton, Vermont resident, who previously lived in Beverly and Essex, was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. McIntrye was scheduled to appear virtually in federal court on Tuesday.
The U.S. Attorney Office said in April, McIntyre submitted a fraudulent PPP application, along with inflated payroll expenses and falsified tax forms, claiming the pizzeria had nearly 50 employees. An investigation showed McIntyre paid fewer than 10 employees at any time before or after the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
McIntyre is accused of accepting the $660,000 loan, then selling the pizzeria and using all of the funds for personal expenses, including purchasing and upgrading an alpaca farm in Vermont and buy several alpacas, at least two vehicles and weekly airtime for a cryptocurrency-themed radio show.
The PPP program, through the federal CARES Act, was intended to allow small businesses to retain employees and pay certain business-related expenses during the pandemic through forgivable loans.
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Here is another one for your “this sentence was never written in the history of the world until now” collection.
So he wanted to turn a medium fortune into a small one?
I always ask for alpaca instead of pepperoni on my pizza there. This is all legit.
Alpaca pizza! Yum!
Maybe they are part of the ingredients in his pizza.
Squirrels are much cheaper. So I’ve heard.
ALM! Alpaca lives matter! Llama supremacy is a HUGE threat!
No justice! No peace!
... Paycheck Protection Program funds for personal purposes, including to buy alpacas
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I have this image of Daffy Duck saying this line with all the ‘P’ sounds it struck me as funny.
He was forced into it. The guy that regularly spits on pizzas was making too much on unemployment and wouldn’t come back to work.
Dammit. They are so good on a pizza....if you can get over the spit.
When the PPP loan came out, I thought it was a trap.
We’re they alpacas of color? If so, nothing to see here, move along.
MMMMMM...Alpaca cheese...way better than bufalo. Higher on the cheese chain.
Bump
And we don’t get any of the covid stimulus money and no we are NOT rich.
I think McIntyre said to the judge about the charges, “I think that they are alpacca lies, your honor”
He no longer owns the pizza place (new owners kept the name—I’d change it if I were them). The one time I ate there under
his ownership, I wasn’t impressed.
Indeed he probably lied about having almost 50 employees. Place was tiny.
He’d bought time on an area FM station
for classic hits music and stuff about
bitcoin. Station cancelled it. He used
to come in to another area restaurant I frequented and seemed a bit rude. The site Turtleboy Sports told of him being rude to
customers who complained about his $30 lobster pizza, and doxxing them.
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