Indictment — No. 1:20-cr-00560 (Dkt. 1, N.D. Ill.)

Summary

An indictment returned by the Special May 2019 Grand Jury in United States of America v. Melissa Turasky, Case 1:20-cr-00560, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, filed August 27, 2020 as Document 1. Count One cites bank fraud under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344, and Count Two cites false statements to Bank A under Section 1014. The indictment alleges that Turasky, as owner of Gifford's Bar and Restaurant in Elgin, Illinois, applied for a PPP loan of $176,822 while representing that the loan would support the restaurant's "ongoing operations." It states that Gifford's had been evicted and had terminated all of its employees by the end of March 2020, and that Bank A disbursed the loan on or about May 1, 2020. A forfeiture allegation seeks a personal money judgment of approximately $176,822.

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