Indictment — No. 2:22-cr-00297 (Dkt. 1, E.D. Pa.)

Summary

An Indictment against Wylene Johnson, Cookie Bundy, Hakeem Cooper, Barry Mitchell and Louis Barnett in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Case 2:22-cr-00297-GEKP, filed 09/08/22 as Document 1. Counts One through Four charge mail fraud over Pandemic Unemployment Assistance checks and a debit card mailed to the defendants, and Count Five charges theft of public money under Sections 641 and 2. The grand jury alleges that the defendants filed approximately 90 PUA applications listing one Philadelphia mailing address and falsely stating job losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Count Six alleges a false EIDL application by Wylene Johnson, stating 13 other employees and $142,000 in sales, with a request for an emergency advance. The notice of forfeiture seeks the sum of $1,018,690.

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