PPP Indictments - Suburban
Two south suburban women and a man are charged in federal court with working as illegal brokers for people who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program.
Amanda Heller of Frankfort, Sarah Stokes of Crestwood and James Townsend of Midlothian were indicted on wire fraud charges. They’re free in lieu of bail. Heller declined to comment except to say, “It’s a charge at this time, not a conviction.” Stokes and Townsend couldn’t be reached.
Heller, Stokes and Townsend had filed applications for dozens of loans on behalf of sole proprietors of businesses that didn’t actually exist, according to an indictment unsealed last month and applications for search warrants unsealed Monday.
The trio got kickbacks of $5,000 to $10,000 for each successful application to the program, which began in early April 2020 and ended in late May 2021, according to the indictment.
Maybe they had to get the suburban cases in the system before they go to town on the urban dwellers who had assembly lines of fraud rivaling anything suburbanites could come up with.
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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Tic toc Talley. Dirty trash
No Longer SILENCED‼️🤫
Bureau of Internal Affairs (BIA) thought they BURIED me & Corruption. BIA thought they SILENCED me & UNJUSTLY Billed me Legal Fees 💲💰💲because of my COURAGE & AUDACITY to STAND UP against INJUSTICE…🦁💪🏾 Coverup 🤥& Abuse of Power by BIA… “GOD has not given us the spirit of fear…” “Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, EXPOSE them.” Current ongoing Federal Lawsuit, Constructive Discharge; case #24-cv-04467 & U.S. Supreme Court, Discrimination #22-972; May 30, 2023; Petition DENIED. Jacqueline A. Watkins, Petitioner v. City of Chicago(CPD). https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-972/263038/20230407154603367_20230407-153911-00002559-00000205.pdf
terrys kid still getting his salary at call back anyone else would would be in a no pay
Four years the feds were investigating that case?
Damn they're so slow.
Eventually they'll get around to local pols and family members who imbibed at the PPP fountain of free money.
Might have some politicians suddenly start praising Trump if they're indicted.
My bet for Chicago is current and former aldermen, state legislators, family members, and some executive branch types.
Then a flock of high ranking exempts from CPD.
Probably be an attorney at the center of much of it.
I would strongly bet we have CPD members, especially exempts, retired, and current that are starting to worry, if they are involved, let’s hope they also lose the pensions, saving the people that actually deserve the money lock them up.
The brokers should go to jail first, the payeess should get a chance to make restitution. Then the approvers should be next, approving these was criminal.
You go girl....get Paid !
hopefully there is enough dei with the arrests to satisfy the libs and dems
But it was just gubmint money.
OFT who were the command staff changes
Hopefully OEMC and City Hall are next!!!
Now do the fraudsters and thieves in CPD, CFD, OEMC
Speaking of the loan fraud, what is going on with the “Triple P Loan” dispatchers? Are they still working at the Chicago OEMC? Is anyone investigating? Let’s not forget that they have committed tax fraud to boot. Are those backwoods yokels still cooking squirrels at the Chicago OEMC?
Hope Ja'Mal is on that list the feds are looking at.
He brokered a boatload of PPP loans.
And so it begins .
Fuck the payees. Why should they get a chance? You got relatives? Many of these same people Covid stimulus money for their kids etc. They knew what they were doing was wrong. Rarely is the restitution ever collected. Let them get a criminal charge. Then maybe next time someone will think before ripping off their fellow taxpayers.
There is a whole cottage industry teaching and showing people how to defraud SNAP, SSID and any other government handout. Go DOGE
Why does Pritzker family have 64 Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's) that are taking in tax payer money?
Guess the whole family are PIGS feeding at the taxpayer trough.
EO13818
The Pigster and family are probably sweating right about now (the Funk's so rubber check it out now!) LOL!
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-13818-blocking-the-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-or
This is very rare most cases are dropped never go to trail with no punishment or even recovery of the money Seems like you stole the money it’s ok.
This is another fault of Biden for giving everyone money.
So you got called-out trying to blow off a job and decided to play the Race and Sex Cards instead of taking your medicine. Got it. I’d be willing to bet that you probably spent extended/recurring stints on the medical to deal with all the “stress” this caused you.
There’s a reason the lower courts threw out your case. But you just go ahead and keep on working that victim mentality angle. Maybe you’ll be able to dupe the Supreme Court into believing the Department went to exorbitant lengths to orchestrate a targeted attack on an employee over a mundane issue. We all know your game …
As 5:28:30 AM so eloquently stated: “You go girl....get Paid !”
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But they didn’t go to jail. This will drag out for years.
We’re did all that Govment cheese go years ago?
Statue of. Limitation apply?
Does anyone have the true story?
Half of OEMC would be gutted. GET ON IT!
What’s Terrys kid at callback for?
Just looking at this post I can see why they wanted to fire your ass. What an embarrassment.
Nothing will happen
A former mayoral candidate should be very worried.
According to that, you lost the case.
Watkins you were a walking 19-Z aka 5079 (mental health transport for those that don’t know). Leave your BS off the blog, no one cares.
Madigan singing like a canary about dirty deeds past with little Richie and his cronies and others. Kickbacks galore. Pay to Play, and much, much more. RICO Cases pending, tick tock.
That is their mindset, that it is the government’s money, who cares? But it is not the government’s money, the government takes that money from workers through taxes, and they print money when they want to further devalue the dollars that we hold.
The “I’m gonna gits mines” is what drove this fraud. LOCK EM UP!
OT. Mike Madigan found guilty of 10 of 23 count indictment for (drum roll please) Bribery and related crimes. Another criminal and corrupt Democrat goes to prison. I am shocked and appalled, but mostly shocked that a jury in Chicago can get it right. The Conga Line of Democrats from the federal courthouse to federal prison keeps getting longer and longer. Keep it up citizens cause there are plenty more corrupt politicians stealing us blind. Let's go Madigan, Let's go Madigan
Flag vote nearing an end! Come on everyone vote to keep current flag and save millions!
Damn, I missed that one. At least his Sgt daughter didn't take out a,loan. https://unraveledpress.com/stripped-chicago-cops-who-lost-their-badges-in-2024/ some of the charges in this rogues gallery are petty. I liked Terry and feel bad. Sure he was no Garry McCarthy, but not everyone can lead a tiny SW suburban dept from the front barstool.
Let the bitches worry and fret over their fraud. Fraud, lies and corruption is in the blood of city, county and state government. All under the knee bending and subservient media
Ok this is confusing as fuck all around. Is this post from Sgt. Higgins who is no longer silenced?
Regardless, I read the pdf at the link. As I’m reading it I’m thinking did a judge write this shit? With all the fucked up grammar? Then I get to the end of the whole illiterate mess and see at the bottom. “Respectfully submitted, Jacqueline A. Watkins, Pro Se Petitioner “. If she has 2 masters degrees and course work towards a PhD, as the petition states, she should know to proof read her work. That is assuming she would know all the grammar mistakes that are so egregious they make the reader stop and reread to decipher what she’s trying to say. She has a serious problem with the correct endings on verbs. But read that thing and you have to wonder how she got two masters degrees. I’m suspecting Chicago state.
I willing to bet that payees turned on the brokers for leniency...
It's Oprah time.and you get 20k and you get 20k and you get 20k and all the lay abouts get 20k. Except all the working stiffs paying for it on April 15th. Just admit it,stealing in blue cities is approved by uncle sugar. Dey owes us dat gubmint cheese.
uh, this was a Trump thing. He signed the PPP act into law in April of 2020
This being the most essential role of every Social Worker in the Cook County Healthcare system
To the fuck the payeess. I have no problem with it, but the democrats in Congress jammed this money into communities and wanted it spent. I have no skin in the game, but when you tell someone it's free money, you can sucker a lot of people.
I’m surprised that the govt efficiency dept isn’t going through PPP first. The data is exceptionally straight forward and has been publicly reviewed for fraud by amateurs for years. Imagine all of those computer and data experts doing their 18hr days on that.
Only problem is getting that money back.
Off topic....can anybody confirm that Conehead lives in the Beverly neighborhood now.? I thought he was a westside black man, with a black wife, three black kids, another baby momma with another kid!!!!
I dont give a flying F about whose kid is where or how much he is paid, or who is still on the job. Or whose father is still on the job. As long as the bi-weekly monetary injection hits my bank account, we're on friendly terms. Live your lives people. CPD is temporary-treat it as such.
He didn’t give money to me. He took my earnings to give to illegals
OT: What the f-ck?
https://www.facebook.com/share/19tK2YxqTC/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Hilarious
Madigan: Guilty
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/ex-illinois-house-speaker-convicted-10-corruption-charges-trial
Many cpd will go down for this fraud
And in her petition she states something to the effect of she was harmed because “she scores low on tests and the only way she’ll get promoted is with a merit promotion. And if you have a CR you’ll never get a merit promotion. “.
From the pdf:
“ For one, she alleges that both the CR and the suspension severely hampered her chances at promotion within the Department. It is undisputed that out of the two methods for advancement-test scores and merit promotion-merit promotion was the only available avenue for Watkins. Watkins admitted that she does not score high on promotional scores but indeed passed all promotional exams but required merit promotions that required nominations and letters of recommendations from her supervisors to be promoted meritoriously and final approval from the Superintendent of police. According to Watkins, she submitted multiple applications for promotional opportunities including lateral, detective, and sergeant positions but never heard back. Watkins alleges that it is "a customary practice for meritorious promotions to be denied when a CR appears on an officer's personnel record." Watkins has proven that CRs' carry a stigma that follows an Officers career especially being Black and female.”
If I am not mistaken this $ was set aside from the Paycheck Protection Act of 2020. Or one of those acts ... anyway they should have written into the bill a 100 year statute of limitations. I hope they did.
Uhhhh, you are being disingenuous to blame the fraud on President Trump. He meant it for good, but like anverything else, democrats corrupted it and turned it into a free money scam for their peoples and folks. Like Rahm said, “never let a good crisis go to waste.”
Fire,prosecute all that fraudulently benefited from PPE $$$$ if retired take away pension benefits
I “think” they might have gone back later and extended the statute of limitations when they saw all the fraud. Not sure, but hope so.
Since when does being stupid and somewhat demented hinder a minorities chance of being promoted?
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