A Fort Myers, Florida, contractor has been arrested and charged with attempting to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) meant to help keep workers employed during the coronavirus. Casey David Crowther, 35, has been charged with making a false statement to a lending institution. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. — Construction Dive
Crowther received $2 million in funds from the PPP loan for his company, Target Roofing & Sheet Metal, and allegedly included misleading statements as to how the money would be used, stating that it would only be used for business purposes, Construction Dive reports. Shortly after receiving the PPP funds, it is reported that Crowther used a portion of the funds to purchase a 2020 40-foot catamaran boat for approximately $689,417. According to Construction Dive, the case is currently being investigated by the United States Secret Service.
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Hey! This guy did my bathroom remodel!
I remember thinking, 'he sort of looks like Bjarke minus the hair gel'... so I figured he needed the experience.
Congratulations Casey, you're going to jail. Geez, you use tax payer dollars to by your boat. That money could have gone to better use where it helps people and businesses survive but you are a fraud because it didn't go into your business for legitimate use. You didn't use the money to buy PPE and stuff for making things safe for your employees. You didn't use it to retain or hire employees. The government should seize your boat and recover at least some of the money from your boat purchase.
Enjoy being your new room mate's toy.
The loans are meant to help pay payroll expenses and certain eligible expenses and that includes (within reason) associated expenses for re-opening in this COVID-19 situation such as masks, sneeze guards, and similar stuff needed so workers can go back to work but main things like helping pay eligible payroll and non-payroll expenses: (an informational source: https://mbafcpa.com/advisories/faqs-ppp-loan-proceeds-allowable-uses-related-forgiveness/ ).
Sadly, Mr. Casey, you simply try to scam the system and you're going to prison. Sorry, took the money to buy a boat. PPP has a very stated purpose.
If you applied for PUA and get up to $875 a week for a theoretical $34,125 but it would really be a bit less because the amount of the federal boost of $600 a week is for so many number of weeks). If you were unemployed and not working, it wouldn't have been a big deal but nope that was not enough for you.
Casey, you had to be greedy. Welcome to jail. That $689,000 could have gone to help 10-25 employees. What's worse (and it is worse) is that you (Casey) got $2,000,000 in PPP. Where did that money go? Does not seem like it went to employees or the purposes of the PPP.
Yeah, I would consider you a good case for going to jail not just be required to pay back the loan and fined. Enjoy jail time. I wouldn't say you should be in prison for 30 years but 5 to 10 years, maybe a little less for good behavior and a healthy fine and requirement to pay back loan and judgment liens against your assets and seizure of the funds from your accounts for repaying the loan and the fines.
what algorithm gets you this "Enjoy being your new room mate's toy."
Do you think flat out stealing $2,000,000 from the government via a downright fraud is going to be something that the person is just going to just have a slap on the wrist and a little "don't do that again" warning? He's going to go to federal prison. What do you think those lifers are going to do with that little 'pretty boy' like him?
The idea that prison is a place rife with rape and that's somehow justified is a disgusting thing to be comfortable with.
Get a grip on reality Rick, this is white collar crime of a type that most often results in no prison time at all ($2M is relatively small time), and when it does it's nearly always in federal minimum security where he can spend all day working out and taking enrichment classes, or federal work camp where there aren't even any fences - i.e. "club fed" - and some are allowed to sign in and out to work a regular job. There aren't many "lifers" in that setting, and nearly the whole population are also there for white collar crimes (insurance fraud, embezzlement, pyramid schemes...) - nothing violent.
Prison life is disgusting and rife with all kinds of treatment. Sorry but that's not a thing that any of us can change. It might just be something to think about before going so far as to outright commit a crime that will land your rear end there. After all, it is prison nor a Hilton Hotel with free food.
Prison is supposed to be punishment. You are supposed to be punished and treated like shit. You forfeit your rights when you break the law. You denounce your citizenship and rights/privileges of citizenship when you break the law with crime(s). It is implicit. Only after you served your time may some to all your rights and privileges are restored. That was how it was since the beginning of the United States. You can lose your rights. That's what it means to go to prison.
If you weren't punished and disciplined, it's just a free apartment with food. Otherwise, prison is a waste of money and an absolutely useless and meaningless disciplinary action to be imposed because it is better than being on the streets. If it is better than a street gang-infested neighborhood rife with drive-by shooting and working 80-120 hours a week at minimum wage then it is not punishment but a vacation.
Sorry, but that's where you go if you disregard the laws and disobey them. If you disagree with the law then you go through the legal process of amending or repealing a law through the legislative process starting with a draft Bill, get it sponsored by a member of the legislature (or Congress in the federal law level).
At a prison, you have every kind of piece of shit asshole that can be dreamed of crammed all in complex/compound. Believe it or not, your cell mates and neighbors in that neighborhood bloc is likely to full of people who have little to no regards for the law and when they are lifers, they really don't have an incentive for rehabilitation.
It's what it is and nothing can change that and none of our opinions matters because there isn't a thing you, I, or anyone on a web forum about architecture can do about prison culture. We're here and they are there.
Aluminate, then we're just giving the asshole a Hilton Hotel with free food. F--- that. I would drop his butt in the middle of Antarctica to be chipping ice in the glacier before I would give this person a glorified hotel with free food. What the f--- is wrong with our country where we don't actually punish criminals?
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