Indictment — No. 4:22-cr-00110 (Dkt. 443, E.D. Tex.)

Summary

A first superseding indictment filed September 13, 2023 as Document 443 in United States of America v. Michael Lewayne Hill, Andrew Charles Moran and others, Case No. 4:22CR110, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. It alleges a scheme led by Hill and Moran in which recruits used sham or existing businesses to submit PPP applications with false employee and payroll figures and fabricated documents, obtaining at least 16 loans and at least $3.5 million. It alleges, for example, that Cord Newman Global received $225,954 from Kabbage on or about June 23, 2020 after reporting 9 employees, and that Newman wired about $140,000 to Hill. It alleges that funds went to cash, vehicles, jewelry and purported foreign exchange investments, including a wire of about $1.4 million to Australia. The signature block names United States Attorney Damien M. Diggs.

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