Indictment — USA v. Upchurch (Dkt. 1, W.D. Wis.)

Summary

An indictment filed July 19, 2023 as Document 1 in United States v. Eric Upchurch, Case 3:23-cr-00069-wmc, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, citing 18 U.S.C. § 1343 and 18 U.S.C. § 1957(a). The grand jury charges that from about April 2020 to about April 2021 the defendant submitted PPP loan applications for entities including Opportunity, Inc., the Madison Alliance for Black Economic Empowerment and a sole proprietorship, with false payroll figures and fake tax documents, although the IRS had no records of wages paid. It states Summit Credit Union deposited $135,000 for Opportunity, Inc. on May 7, 2020 after an application claiming twelve employees, and that other loans came from Kabbage, Itria Ventures and Cross River Bank. A money laundering count concerns $20,000 wired to Coinbase to buy Bitcoin, and forfeiture of $406,211 is sought.

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