Posted on 06/01/2025 2:23:46 PM PDT by Morgana
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Raleigh pastor is facing decades behind bars after pleading guilty to receiving more than $400,000 of fraudulent government-funded COVID-19 loans.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 45-year-old Mitchell Summerfield was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 loan funds.
According to court documents, Summerfield was the pastor of the Word of God Fellowship Church in Raleigh and owned various other businesses, including Winning Ways, KHS Investments, and Vision and Destiny.
In 2018, Summerfield stepped into the role of lead pastor at Word of God Fellowship, a church founded by his late parents. His church biography describes him as "a next generation leader," crediting him for closing real estate deals valued at over a million dollars.
At one of the companies, Winning Ways, which Summerfield claimed is a home for teen mothers, investigators said it never operated, but he still received a nearly $150,000 loan.
Between July 2020 and July 2021, documents said Summerfield conspired with others to submit false and fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and Economic Injury Disaster loans (EIDL) for his businesses.
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Yogi, where are you?
30 yrs for stealing. People get 30 days for shooting someone on the subway
Yep, boo boo, it’s “them”.
Guess he didn’t really believe in the 3rd and 8th Commandments.
Up to 30 years. He has diversity protection and will see a lot less.
Yet more proof government programs are just con jobs for grifters.
No accountability. Bureaucratic morass of lazy government employees.
He should just put on a dress, some high heels, and change his last name to Biden.
People are starting to go down for PPP fraud. Word got out in communities, and people conspired to defraud the government (taxpayers). They never stopped to think that this stuff wouldn’t somehow be audited.
I watched a video of a man who was complaining on social media about being caught; it was just something “everyone did.” He has an ankle monitor, and was told he was facing 10 years in federal prison unless he could come up with the $20,000; that might sway a judge to go easier on the sentencing.
He said the money was long gone, that the only thing tangible thing he had from the theft was the Rolex on his wrist. It would be sweet if that wound up being fake; the swindler getting swindled.
I have no pity for him or anyone else.
It’s them again, Yogi.
* Who were the lending agencies?
* Sounds like an O scheme, that a community organizer would pull, fraudulent birth certificate and all?
* Like property tax confiscation.
At all.
* Property taxes. Uniparty and all
It wasn’t just “them”. None of our County Supervisors or City officials are “them” but more than just a few used PPP “loans” to pad their bank accounts.
Yes, there are a lot of people who fraudulently took out these loans. A city council member in Charlotte, NC took out more than $100,000 and used $30,000 to pay for her own fancy birthday party. She even had a throne for the night.
It turns out she is already a convicted felon and spent four years in federal prison for taking out thousands of dollars in student loans and helping others to do the same.
How can she vote? She just voted to pay the Charlotte police chief more than $400,000 under the table because he said his feeling were hurt by comments of the city council and he might sue. Charlotte has an infestation of grifters.
Steely Tom, no name given, Nervous Tick... Are you saying blacks are the only ones committing PPP fraud?
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