U.S. v. Crowther

Case summary

The United States charged Casey David Crowther, president of Target Roofing & Sheet Metal, Inc., by criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division, No. 2:20-mj-01094, with a false statement to a lending institution under 18 U.S.C. 1014 over a Paycheck Protection Program loan. The complaint of September 1, 2020 (Entry 3), sworn by Senior Special Agent Brian Kirby of the U.S. Secret Service before Magistrate Judge Nicholas P. Mizell, alleges that Crowther obtained $2,098,700 in PPP funds on April 14, 2020 after certifying the money would go to payroll, rent and utilities, wired $689,417.00 on April 24, 2020 to buy a 2020 40-foot Invincible Catamaran titled in his name, and transferred other sums out of the PPP account. The page carries seven documents from September 1 to September 8, 2020: the motion to seal and sealing order (Entries 1 and 2), the complaint, the minutes of the September 2, 2020 initial appearance at which the government did not seek detention (Entry 6), the unsecured $100,000.00 appearance bond and conditions of release (Entry 9), a notice of appearance by Nicole Hughes Waid (Entry 11) and the clerk's notice that his passport was surrendered on September 3, 2020 (Entry 12). These are allegations. The hosted docket ends with that September 8, 2020 notice; no charging document after the complaint is in the archive.