Statement of Facts — U.S. v. Campbell Sales Group (E.D.N.C.)

Summary

Attachment B, the Statement of Facts incorporated into the Deferred Prosecution Agreement between the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and Campbell Sales Group, Inc., filed April 8, 2025 as Document 7 in Case 7:25-cr-00014-FL. The company admits that after receiving $257,700 in PPP loan proceeds on or about April 27, 2020, it added individuals who did not work for it to the payroll and inflated wages of actual employees to qualify for forgiveness. It states that the company submitted a forgiveness application to First Home Bank on or about October 30, 2020 and later sent a payroll spreadsheet listing the non-employees, and that the loan was forgiven in May 2021. It also states the company obtained a second PPP loan of $213,006 from First Community Bank using the same false 2020 wage information, forgiven in March 2022.

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