Indictment — No. 1:25-cr-10013 (Dkt. 1, D. Mass.)

Summary

An indictment returned and filed January 15, 2025 as Document 1 in United States v. Dominik Manigo and Nelson Roche Diaz, Case 1:25-cr-10013-MJJ, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Count One charges wire fraud conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1349, alleging that from about May 2020 to about September 2021 the defendants submitted false Pandemic Unemployment Assistance applications to the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and received over $43,000 in PUA funds. It states each defendant's May 7, 2020 claim certified 2019 income of $6,031 and a place of employment closed because of COVID-19, and that employment-substantiation letters citing a Boston pizza restaurant were submitted on June 21, 2021. Counts Two and Three charge wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 over those letters, and a forfeiture allegation seeks proceeds.

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