Indictment — No. 4:20-cr-00027 (Dkt. 1, E.D. Va.)

Summary

A grand jury indictment in United States v. Joseph M. Cherry, II, Case 4:20-cr-00027-RBS-LRL, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Newport News Division, filed May 29, 2020 as Document 1. It charges wire fraud (Counts 1-4), theft of government property (Count 5), false statements to the Small Business Administration (Counts 6-8) and monetary transactions in criminally derived property (Counts 9-10). The indictment alleges that Cherry submitted two Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications and a PPP application with false revenue, employee and criminal-history answers, and received $196,900 in EIDL proceeds on April 24, 2020. It alleges that Cherry withdrew cash and obtained a cashier's check for $70,000 within days. The forfeiture notice seeks a sum of at least $196,900.

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