Federal Tipoffs Involving Rhode Island Newsletter for Sunday March 12, 2023 ( 1 items ) |
R.I. U.S. Attorney: Providence Resident Sentenced For Pandemic-Related Benefits Fraud, Aggravated ID Theft
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, Zachary A. Cunha, issued the following news release on March 9, 2023:
A Providence man who, with others, fraudulently applied for over $90,000 in pandemic-relief unemployment benefits, and who actually received over $30,000 of those benefits, some of which he boasted that he used to purchase firearms, an iPhone and marijuana, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison, announced United States Attorn
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