Complaint — No. 2:20-mj-00269 (Dkt. 1, W.D. Wash.)

Summary

A criminal complaint filed May 21, 2020 as Document 1 in United States v. Baoke Zhang, Case No. MJ20-269 (2:20-mj-00269-MAT), in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, before United States Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler. Count One charges wire fraud under Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343 and 2, and Count Two charges bank fraud under Section 1344, over Paycheck Protection Program applications submitted from Issaquah from in or about April 2020 through in or about May 2020. The supporting affidavit of TIGTA Special Agent Cole Ashcraft states that three applications seeking more than $1.5 million were filed in the names of a sole proprietorship and Cloud Optimization LLC, and lists requests of $600,000, $600,000 and $325,000. It alleges one application claimed an average monthly payroll of $240,000 and at least 25 employees.

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