Report and Recommendation — U.S. v. Morales-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. Joseph Morales-Santiago [25], Criminal No. 23-195 (ADC), in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, filed May 30, 2024 as Document 718. Count Thirty charges a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration through false applications for COVID-19 relief funds, with a wire transmission on or about May 4, 2021. The report states that the defendant pleaded guilty to Count Thirty under a plea agreement at a hearing on May 30, 2024. 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 up to $250,000.00. It recommends acceptance of the plea and is signed by Magistrate Judge Héctor L. Ramos-Vega.

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