Criminal Information — United States v. Vershun Weaver, Northern District of Georgia (Document 1)
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A criminal information filed by the United States Attorney against Vershun Weaver, No. 1:25-CR-0285, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, filed in open court July 1, 2025 as Document 1. It alleges that on or about April 2, 2021 Weaver applied as a sole proprietor for a $20,832 PPP loan, supported by a 2019 Schedule C claiming $103,000 in gross income that Weaver had not filed with the IRS, and received the funds on or about April 21, 2021. Count One charges a false statement to the SBA under Title 15, United States Code, Section 645(a), over a November 12, 2021 loan forgiveness application. Counts Two and Three charge theft of mail by a Postal Service employee under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709, including United States Treasury checks of $2,675.56 and $1,537.77.
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JUL O1 2025
KEVIN P. WEIMER Cl k
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
ATLANTA DIVISION
UNITED ST A TES OF AMERICA
v. Criminal Information
VERSHUN WEA VER No. 1:25-CR-0285
THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY CHARGES THAT:
Background
At all times relevant to this Information:
The Small Business Administration
1. The United States Small Business Administration ("SBA") was an
executive branch agency of the United States government that provided support
to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The mission of the SBA was to maintain ·
and strengthen the nation's economy by enabling the establishment and viability
of small businesses and by assisting in the economic recovery of communities
after disasters.
2. As part of this effort, the SBA enabled and provided for loans through
banks, credit unions, and other lenders. These loans had government backed
guarantees.
The Paycheck Protection Program
3. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (" CARES") Act was a
federal law enacted in or around March 2020 that was designed to provide
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emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who were suffering
the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
4. One source of relief that the CARES Act provided for was the
authorization of up to $349 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses for
payroll, mortgage interest, rent/lease, and utilities, through a program referred
to as the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP"). In April 2020, Congress
authorized up to $310 billion in additional PPP funding.
5. To obtain a PPP loan, a qualifying business must submit a PPP loan
application, which must be signed by an authorized representative of the
business. The PPP loan application required the business (through its authorized ·
representative) to acknowledge the program rules and make certain affirmative
certifications to be eligible to obtain the PPP loan. In the PPP loan application,
the small business (through its authorized representative) had to state, among
other things, its (a) average monthly payroll expenses and (b) number of
employees. These figures were used to calculate the amount of money the small
business was eligible to receive under the PPP. In addition, businesses applying
for a PPP loan had to provide documentation showing their payroll expenses.
The PPP loan application required the business (through its authorized
representative) to acknowledge the program rules and make certain affirmative
certifications in order to be eligible to obtain the PPP loan.
6. The proceeds of a PPP loan were to be used for certain specified items
such as payroll costs, rent/ mortgage interest, utilities, supplier costs and
operations expenditures.
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7. The PPP allowed the interest and principal on the PPP loan to be entirely
forgiven if the business spent the loan proceeds on permissible expense items
within a designated period after receiving the proceeds and used a certain
amount of the PPP loan proceeds on payroll expenses.
8. The SBA oversaw the PPP. However, individual PPP loans were issued by
private, approved lenders who received and processed PPP applications and
supporting documentation, and then made loans using the lenders' own funds,
which were 100% guaranteed by the SBA. Data from the application, including
information about the borrower, the total amount of the loan, and the listed
number of employees, was transmitted by the lender to the SBA in the course of
processing the loan.
Financial Institution 1
9. Financial Institution 1 is a nonbank financial institution headquartered in
Bedford, Texas. Financial Institution 1 participated in the SBA' s PPP as a lender,
and as such, was authorized to lend funds to eligible borrowers under the terms
of the PPP loan.
Execution of the Scheme
10. On or about April 2, 2021, the Defendant, VERSHUN WEAVER electronically
signed and submitted a PPP Borrower Application Form as the sole proprietor of
a business named "Vershun Weaver" via the internet to Financial Institution 1.
The application requested a loan in the a1nount of $20,832 with the funds to be
deposited into Defendant WEAVER'S personal checking account. The application
included statements by Defendant WEAVER that:
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a. The purpose of the loan_was payroll/ wages, rent/ mortgage interest,
utilities, and covered operations expenditure s;
b. the Applicant business was in operation on February 15, 2020; and
c. current economic uncertainty m.ade this loan request necessary to
support the ongoing operations of the Applicant.
11. Defendant WEAVER'S PPP application claimed that his business generated
$103,000 of gross income in 2019. In support of his application, Defendant
WEAVER submitted a 2019 Schedule C Form, purporting to show that the
business generated $103,000 in gross income in 2019. That form stated that, in
2019, the.company had gross income of $103,000 and net profit of $92,800. As
Defendant WEAVER then knew, these representati ons were materially false and
fraudulent. Specifically, Defendant WEAVER had not filed that Schedule C Form.
with the IRS and did not report any income from. the Applicant business to the
IRS for 2019.
12. Based on the representati ons and submissions made in Defendant
WEAVER' s application, Financial Institution 1 distributed $20,832 in PPP loan
funds to Defendant WEA VER on or about April 21, 2021.
13. After the funds were deposited in Defendant WEAVER' s bank account, he
used the funds for impermissib le purposes, including purchases at clothing
stores, shoe stores, and cash withdrawal s in the Northern District of Georgia and
elsewhere.
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14. On or about November 12, 2021, Defendant WEAVER submitted and caused
to be submitted an application for loan forgiveness for the PPP loan he obtained.
In that loan forgiveness application, Defendant WEAVER falsely and fraudulently
represented that he had complied with the rules of the PPP and sought
forgiveness for the entire loan amount of $20,832.
Count One
(False Statement to SBA)
15. The U.S. Attorney re-alleges and incorporates by reference the factual
allegations contained in Paragraphs 1 through 14 as if fully set forth herein.
16. On or about November 12, 2021, the Defendant, VERSHUNWEAVER, made
and caused to be made a statement he knew to be false for the purpose of
influencing the action of the Small Business Administration. Specifically, the
defendant, VERSHUN WEAVER, submitted a Paycheck Protection Program Loan
Forgiveness Application that contained information he knew to be false,
including false statements that he had cmnplied with Paycheck Protection
Program rules and used the Paycheck Protection Program Loan proceeds for
authorized expenses.
All in violation of Title 15, United States Code, Section 645(a), and Title 18,
United States Code, Section 2.
CountTwo
(Theft of Mail by Postal Service Employee)
17. Beginning on a date unknown but at least by on or about July 14, 2023, in
the Northern District of Georgia, the Defendant, VERSHUN WEA VER, who was
then a United States Postal Service employee, and who had been entrusted with
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mail matter, did knowingly embezzle, steal, take, and abstract mail matter from a
letter box,,mail receptacle, and other authorized depository for mail matter,
which was intended to be conveyed by mail, that is:
• a United States Treasury check in the sum of $2,675.56 addressed to KG.
• a United States Treasury check in the sum of $1,537.77 addressed to E.M.
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709.
Count Three
(Theft of Mail by Postal Service Employee)
18. Beginning on a date unknown but at least by on or about July 17, 2023, in
the Northern District of Georgia, the Defendant, VERSHUN WEA VER, who was
then a United States Postal Service employee and who had been entrusted with
mail matter, did knowingly embezzle, steal, take, and abstract mail matter from a
letter box, mail receptacle, and other authorized depository for mail matter,
which was intended to be conveyed by mail, , that is:
• one white envelope from a financial institution addressed to J.B.
• one white envelope from a financial institution addressed to S.S.
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709.
THEODORE S. HERTZBERG
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DWAYNE A. BROWN JR.
Assistant United States Attorney
Georgia Bar No. 509554
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