Businesswoman Sentenced to Prison for Fabricating Millions in Business Income to Obtain Pandemic Relief
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A press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts, dated June 28, 2024, announcing that Vanessa Nixon of Framingham was sentenced on June 26, 2024, by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to five months in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $468,832 in restitution and forfeiture. Nixon pleaded guilty to bank fraud in March 2024. The release states that Nixon, owner of businesses including Mass Homes Investments LLC, Nixon Homes LTD and Alpha Auto Body, Inc., submitted Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications that fabricated business income, supported by fake tax documents. It states that Nixon received more than $468,832 in loans that were later forgiven.
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PRESS RELEASE Businesswoman Sentenced to Prison for Fabricating Millions in Business Income to Obtain Pandemic Relief Friday, June 28, 2024 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts BOSTON – A Massachusetts businesswoman was sentenced on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, for submitting fraudulent loan applications seeking COVID-19 relief. Vanessa Nixon, 45, of Framingham, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to five months in prison and three years of supervised release. Nixon was also ordered to pay $468,832 in restitution and forfeiture. In March 2024, Nixon pleaded guilty to bank fraud. Nixon was the owner and operator of multiple businesses in Massachusetts, including Mass Homes Investments LLC, Nixon Homes LTD and Alpha Auto Body, Inc. Between April 2020 and November 2022, Nixon submitted multiple fraudulent loan applications in the names of her various businesses to banks and the U.S. Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program that fabricated millions in business income. Nixon also created fake tax documents that she submitted with the loan applications to substantiate the fabricated business income. In total, Nixon received more than $468,832 in loans that were subsequently forgiven by banks and the U.S. Small Business Administration. Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy; Jonathan Mellone, Special Agent in Charge of Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General; Harry Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston; and Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Markham of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit prosecuted the case. On May 17, 2021, the Attorney General established the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force to marshal the resources of the Department of Justice in partnership with agencies across government to enhance efforts to combat and prevent pandemic- related fraud. The Task Force bolsters efforts to investigate and prosecute the most culpable domestic and international criminal actors and assists agencies tasked with administering relief programs to prevent fraud by, among other methods, augmenting and incorporating existing coordination mechanisms, identifying resources and techniques to uncover fraudulent actors and their schemes, and sharing and harnessing information and insights gained from prior enforcement efforts. For more information on the Department’s response to the pandemic, please visit https://www.justice.gov/coronavirus. Anyone with information about allegations of attempted fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by calling the Department of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) Hotline at 866-720-5721 or via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at: https://www.justice.gov/disaster-fraud/ncdf-disaster-complaint-form. Updated June 28, 2024 Topic FINANCIAL FRAUD Component USAO - Massachusetts
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