Information — No. 8:24-cr-00074 (Dkt. 1, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

A criminal information in United States of America v. Philip Frederick Camino, No. 8:24-cr-00074-FWS, filed June 10, 2024 as Document 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division. It charges conspiracy to commit wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349, with criminal forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 982. The information alleges that from about April 2020 to April 2021 Camino, using California entities he controlled and Arizona entities controlled by co-conspirators, submitted over 20 fraudulent PPP and EIDL applications with inflated employee counts and fictitious tax forms, obtaining over $4 million. It alleges kickbacks of over $100,000 to a co-conspirator and, as an overt act, an email to Lender A supporting a $144,270 PPP application for Nucleon LLC. The signature block names United States Attorney E. Martin Estrada.

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