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Casie Hynes

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The profile

A Los Angeles woman who got about $2.26 million from more than 80 fraudulent PPP and EIDL applications in the names of about 20 companies, including Nasty Womxn Project and She Suite Collective, then filed 12 tax forms seeking $1,255,703 in COVID-19 employment tax credits, including the Employee Retention Credit (ERC). The IRS paid none of it. She was sentenced in February 2025 to 60 months.

Identity and role

Casie Hynes, 37 at her plea and 39 at sentencing, of the Mid-City area of Los Angeles, was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California after an IRS Criminal Investigation inquiry. The companies in the case include Nasty Womxn Project LLC, She Suite Collective, She Suite Ventures and Casie Hynes Consulting, some newly created and others "purportedly owned by Hynes or her friends and family members."

The scheme and pandemic-relief role

The loans came first. From June 2020 to December 2021, according to her plea agreement as the office summarized it, Hynes submitted more than 80 fraudulent PPP and Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications to banks and the SBA. She often used other people's personal information and signatures without their authorization, and supported the applications with fabricated tax documents and bank statements. She admitted she intended losses of about $3,174,323 and received about $2,255,244.

The tax credits came second. From May 2021 to April 2022 she caused 12 tax forms to be filed for Nasty Womxn Project LLC, She Suite Ventures and Casie Hynes Consulting, claiming employees and quarterly wages the companies did not have. They sought approximately $1,255,703 in employee retention and sick-leave credits and refunds, "none of which the IRS paid," the office said.

Same companies, same applicant, two programs: the lenders and the SBA paid about $2.26 million on the loan applications, and the IRS paid nothing on the ERC forms.

  • Pleaded guilty: April 11, 2024, to one count of wire fraud and one count of false claims.
  • Sentenced: by U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera to 60 months in federal prison and $2,376,168 in restitution, the office announced on February 28, 2025.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

The February 2025 sentence is the last public record of Hynes we found.

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