Broward Commissioner Dale Holness’ Daughter Accused Of COVID Relief Funds Fraud

BROWARD (CBSMiami) – Broward Commissioner Dale Holness’ 28-year-old girl is being accused of COVID alleviation funds fraud.

Federal prosecutors said Damara Holness lied connected Paycheck Protection Program applications, illegally obtaining $300,000 successful forgivable loans meant for tiny businesses to past the pandemic.

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According to prosecutors, she “claimed successful the online indebtedness application, and done supporting fraudulent payroll taxation forms, that her institution employed 18 radical and spent an mean of $120,000 each period connected payroll.”

But done their investigation, prosecutors said they learned Holness Consulting, the institution Damara Holness requested the loans for, had zero employees and nary payroll expenses.

Prosecutors said a Georgia slope approved Holness Consulting’s PPP indebtedness application, wiring the wealth to a Florida slope account.

Damara Holness is past accused of spending the “the adjacent fewer months creating a insubstantial way to marque it look arsenic if Holness Consulting had employees and was spending the PPP wealth connected legitimate, approved expenses.”

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According to the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Florida’s release, “Holness issued checks from the institution slope relationship made retired to others who agreed, for a fee, to assistance with the fraud.”

The prosecutors assertion “the radical receiving the checks would endorse and instrumentality them to Holness.”

Damara Holness allegedly pocketed the currency aft doling immoderate backmost to the endorsers successful the scheme.

She is being charged with conspiring to perpetrate ligament fraud.  If convicted, she faces up to 20 years successful situation and a good of up to $250,000.

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She made her archetypal tribunal quality Wednesday earlier being released connected a $100,000 idiosyncratic surety bond.

CBSMiami.com Team