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Mackenzy Toussaint

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PPP · EIDL
Type
Person
Role
Defendant
Programs
PPP, EIDL
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The profile

The man a federal judge called the "ringleader" of a PPP and EIDL scheme that tried for more than $30 million; sentenced in November 2022 to 90 months in prison and $12,402,676.92 in restitution.

Identity and role

Mackenzy Toussaint, also known as "Mack," 40 at sentencing, of Irving, Texas, was charged with Apocalypse Bella and Amos Mundendi in an indictment unsealed on April 22, 2021, United States v. Bella, No. 1:21-cr-00247 (S.D.N.Y.). He was arrested in the Northern District of Texas and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on May 4, 2021. A superseding indictment of December 7, 2021 added Brandon Jackson and Alvin Maxwell.

The scheme and pandemic-relief role

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Toussaint, Bella and Mundendi prepared and submitted fraudulent applications to the SBA and to at least one company that processed PPP applications, trying for more than $30 million in government-guaranteed loans; the office put the actual loss at more than $15 million. Two New York companies alone received about $4 million, which was moved to accounts in the United States and abroad, including accounts Toussaint and Bella controlled. One company's PPP application of June 30, 2020 claimed more than 100 employees; its EIDL application three months earlier had claimed four.

The office said Toussaint and Jackson also ran a separate EIDL scheme built on synthetic identities, pairing fake names with real Social Security numbers that belonged to minors, and that at least about $1.7 million in EIDL money was paid out.

At Mundendi's sentencing in February 2023, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer told Mundendi: "Mr. Toussaint, not you, was the ringleader here."

  • Charged: indictment unsealed April 22, 2021; superseding indictment (S3), December 7, 2021, charging conspiracy, major fraud against the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
  • Pleaded guilty: March 8, 2022, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud (Count Three of S3), with a consent money judgment of $194,649.
  • Sentenced: by Judge Engelmayer to 90 months in prison, the longest term among the five defendants (judgment dated November 10, 2022); surrender by January 10, 2023. A restitution order of January 10, 2023 set $12,402,676.92.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Due to surrender by January 10, 2023 to begin the 90-month term. We found no later public record of him.

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