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A woman who fraudulently applied for a $167,997 pandemic loan for a Poplar Bluff, Missouri business

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A press release from USAO - Missouri, Eastern, published 2023-12-14, "Missouri Woman Sentenced for Fraudulently Applying for $168,000 Pandemic Loan". It announces that U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. sentenced Maxine Michelle Burns, 44, of Willow Springs, Missouri, to six months in prison and five years of supervised release and ordered her to repay the money. According to her plea as described in the release, on Jan. 20, 2021 she applied for a $167,997 PPP loan for a residential treatment facility in Poplar Bluff that she did not run or own, using the owner's name and signature stamp without authorization. It states that she spent the money on vehicles and vacations, obtained forgiveness by falsely claiming payroll use, and pleaded guilty in July to bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution.

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“A woman who fraudulently applied for a $167,997 pandemic loan for a Poplar Bluff, Missouri business.” Original at www.justice.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2023-12-14-missouri-woman-sentenced-for-fraudulently-applying-for-168-6d50f7a481/, SHA-256 1583de162a274cba87d57a20cb43a982d65e16c46e0285434a11ca27651059f7.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU – A woman who fraudulently applied for a $167,997 pandemic loan for a Poplar Bluff, Missouri business that she did not run or own was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison.
U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. also ordered Maxine Michelle Burns, 44, of Willow Springs in Howell County, Missouri, to repay the money. Burns will be on supervised release for five years after she gets out of prison.
Burns applied for a Paycheck Protection Program loan from the Small Business Administration on Jan. 20, 2021, using the name of the owner of a residential treatment facility in Poplar Bluff without authorization. She also used the owner’s signature stamp, her plea says. After the loan was granted, Burns used the money to buy vehicles for herself and pay for vacations. The loan was forgiven after Burns falsely claimed that she’d used the money for payroll and other permissible purposes.
“This case highlights a partnership between the United States Secret Service and the Butler County Sheriff’s Department to aggressively target individuals who have taken advantage of federal pandemic programs,” said Special Agent in Charge Travis Gibson of the U.S. Secret Service - St. Louis Field Office.
Burns pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau in July to bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Willis prosecuted the case.
Anyone with information about pandemic fraud should call the Department of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) Hotline at 866-720-5721 or report via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at
https://www.justice.gov/disaster-fraud/ncdf-disaster-complaint-form
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