Complaint — No. 2:25-cv-00465 (Dkt. 1)

Summary

A civil complaint filed September 15, 2025 as Document 1 in United States v. Christopher Hooper and Hooper Consulting, LLC, Case 2:25-cv-00465-JAW, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, brought on behalf of the Small Business Administration under 15 U.S.C. § 636(b). The United States alleges that Hooper Consulting, a single-member consulting company, received $827,000.00 in COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan funds, and that Hooper missed required payments of $4,085.00 per month. It alleges EIDL funds went to stock purchases through E*TRADE, a $200,000 transfer to a Morgan Stanley account and $165,000 to Bevara LLC, before a hardship application cut payments to $409.00. The single count for misuse of EIDL funds seeks one-and-one half times the principal, $1,240,500.00. It is signed by Assistant United States Attorney Trevor H. Taniguchi.

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