St. Louis County Woman Sentenced for $100,000 Pandemic Loan Fraud
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An October 17, 2024 press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announcing that U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel placed Camille N. Foster, 32, of St. Louis County on probation for five years and ordered her to repay $113,223 to the SBA. Foster, also known as Foster-Nunley, had pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud. The release states that between May 2020 and November 2021 she obtained five PPP loans for three businesses that were not operating, Humble Hearts Home Healthcare LLC, Embellished Jewels LLC and Muse Me Boutique LLC, with false payroll and income figures and fraudulent tax forms. It says one application used another person's name and Social Security number without that person's knowledge, and that she later sought forgiveness on false payroll claims.
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“St. Louis County Woman Sentenced for $100,000 Pandemic Loan Fraud.”
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ST. LOUIS –U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Thursday ordered a woman who fraudulently obtained five pandemic relief loans to repay $113,223 to the U.S. Small Business Administration and placed her on probation for five years. Camille N. Foster, now 32, of St. Louis County, Missouri, obtained five Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans between May 2020 and November 2021 by submitting fraudulent loan applications on behalf of three businesses: Humble Hearts Home Healthcare LLC, Embellished Jewels LLC and Muse Me Boutique LLC. On the applications, she knowingly misrepresented the payroll and annual income of the businesses, which were not in operation at the time. She also submitted fraudulent tax forms with the applications. In a loan application for Muse Me Boutique, Foster used someone else’s name and Social Security number on the application, and signed that person’s name on the application without the person’s knowledge. PPP loans were intended to help struggling small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Foster did not use the money for that purpose. She spent it on retail purchases, dining, cosmetic surgery, bill payments, travel, taxes and payments to others. She then submitted fraudulent applications for PPP loan forgiveness for many of the loans she received, claiming that she had spent most or all the money on payroll costs. Foster, also known as Foster-Nunley, pleaded guilty in April to two counts of wire fraud. The FBI investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Clow 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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