Indictment — No. 4:22-cr-00110 (Dkt. 44, E.D. Tex.)

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An indictment, marked sealed, in United States v. Michael Lewayne Hill a/k/a Tank, No. 4:22-cr-00110 (Dkt. 44), in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, filed May 12, 2022. Count 1 charges conspiracy to commit wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349 from approximately in or around May 2020. The grand jury alleges that Hill recruited others to submit PPP applications with false employee and payroll figures and that the defendants fraudulently obtained at least 16 loans and at least $3.5 million, spending funds on cash withdrawals, gold and silver, jewelry and vehicles or sending them for purported foreign exchange investment. It cites a $225,954 loan to Cord Newman Global and a wire of approximately $1.4 million to an account in Sydney. The notice of penalty lists up to 20 years.

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