Report and Recommendation — U.S. v. Carlos Pena-Santiago (D.P.R.)

Summary

A magistrate judge's report and recommendation on a Rule 11(c)(1)(B) guilty plea hearing in United States of America v. [12] Carlos E. Pena-Santiago, Criminal No. 23-195 (ADC), in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, filed March 11, 2025 as Document 1446. Count Sixteen charges a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration through false applications for COVID-19 relief funds, with a wire transmission on or about February 23, 2021. The report states that the defendant pleaded guilty to Count Sixteen under a plea agreement. It notes a statutory maximum of thirty years and a $1,000,000 fine, but under the plea agreement the defendant is accountable for wire fraud carrying up to twenty years and a fine of not more than $250,000.00. It recommends acceptance of the plea and is signed by Magistrate Judge Héctor L. Ramos-Vega.

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