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Miami real estate broker who used $381K in COVID relief funds on Bentley, luxe apartment, gets 3.5 years behind bars
New York Pst ^ | August 19, 2023 | Matthew Sedacca

Posted on 08/19/2023 12:24:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Miami real estate broker was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for bilking the government out of $381,000 in COVID relief funds — which she used to splurge on a Bentley, luxury apartment and cosmetic procedures.

Daniela Rendon, 31, pleaded guilty in April to one count of wire fraud, having been indicted in February on six additional counts of wire fraud, two counts of money laundering and one count of aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors ended up dropping the additional charges.

Rendon, a Colombian-born mother of three, said during her sentencing in Miami federal court Thursday that her actions had been “motivated by insatiable greed” — because it appeared that “everybody” was fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief loans at the time, the Miami Herald reported. Once feds uncovered Rendon had been fleecing the loan programs, however, the onetime “Ultra Luxury” real estate agent realized she hadn’t been harming the “faceless entities of the U.S. government,” but rather “countless individuals and businesses” that had been walloped by an “unparalleled period of economic distress.”

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Wasn't this the purpose of "COVID relief funds?"

What was the percentage of COVID relief funds that was misused? It seems ;like it may be over than 50%?

1 posted on 08/19/2023 12:24:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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She forgot to get on board the Biden Family Syndicate train.

A few showers with Ol' Rumpleforeskin and Hump-her, and she would have had a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card for life...

2 posted on 08/19/2023 12:28:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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because it appeared that “everybody” was fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief loans

It wasn't just an appearance -- all that money was flushed away as fast as fraudsters could claim it.

3 posted on 08/19/2023 12:31:29 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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--- "...her actions had been 'motivated by insatiable greed' — because it appeared that 'everybody' was fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief loans at the time...."

The whole Covid scam was, from start to finish, a method to lure many into a variety of traps, for a different form of 'insatiable greed.'

One should not forget that the Covd "event" essentially toppled a presidency, installed a soft "color revolution" of Democrats, made many wildly wealthy, crushed years of education for most kids and young adults, and and hammered productivity with economically tragic lockdowns, and....

"Meet The 40 New Billionaires Who Got Rich Fighting Covid-19"

Source from over two years ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=5056543617e5

4 posted on 08/19/2023 12:33:31 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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She deserves a Bentley. We shouldn’t have paid for it, but she deserves a Bentley.

Is there still a prison pen-pal system in place I wonder?


5 posted on 08/19/2023 12:35:00 PM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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Sounds like:

Con
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6 posted on 08/19/2023 12:35:21 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( See"War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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So she gets 100K per year for getting attention behind bars


7 posted on 08/19/2023 12:35:57 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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$120K per year of time served for the ripoff tramp


8 posted on 08/19/2023 12:37:39 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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So, she’s available in three-and-a-half years?

😅🤣

On a serious note; did she think that they weren’t going to notice?

Of course they’re going to notice. DUH


9 posted on 08/19/2023 12:48:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Bathe her. Bring her to me. Don’t forget the Bentley.


10 posted on 08/19/2023 12:55:58 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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She is NOT GUITY! She only got caught because someone ratted her out. This is so UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 08/19/2023 1:28:38 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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>>>because it appeared that “everybody” was fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief loans

Moral equivalency decay!


12 posted on 08/19/2023 1:36:49 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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Daniela Rendon, 31, is not very bright. Spending stolen money just leads to personal depression.


13 posted on 08/19/2023 2:27:02 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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Meanwhile dancing chicago teachers and thier union still have a job while they did the same. Besides shes much much better looking


14 posted on 08/20/2023 4:30:04 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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