three extra folks in Will County charged with Paycheck Safety Program mortgage fraud – Shaw Native

Three extra folks in Will County have been arrested in reference to an ongoing investigation of Paycheck Safety Program fraud.

Since June 15, no less than 10 folks have been arrested on costs alleging that they dedicated fraud involving the Paycheck Safety Program that was established by the federal authorities to financially help companies in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prosecutors dropped costs in opposition to a kind of defendants, Donta Bailey, 19, of Joliet.

The most recent defendants charged with fraudulently acquiring PPP loans are Jarvis Perkins, 37, Adrian Clark, 34, and Victoria Orasco, 27, all of Joliet.

Perkins was taken to the Will County jail July 20, whereas Clark and Orasco have been jailed Wednesday and Thursday.

Joliet police Sgt. Dwayne English declined to offer additional particulars about these circumstances as a result of the investigation is ongoing and includes different regulation enforcement companies.

In a legal criticism, prosecutors alleged that between March 18, 2021, and March 26, 2021, Perkins fraudulently obtained a $20,832 mortgage by claiming his sole proprietor enterprise had a gross income of $144,460 in 2019.

Prosecutors alleged that Perkins fraudulently represented in his software that he was not underneath legal prosecution when he was “underneath indictment for armed routine legal” in a 2020 case in Will County.

In that case, Perkins initially was charged with being an armed routine legal, aggravated illegal use of a weapon and aggravated fleeing.

On Jan. 11, 2021, Perkins pleaded responsible to aggravated fleeing whereas prosecutors dropped the opposite two costs, courtroom information present. He was sentenced to serve 50% of a three-year jail sentence, and he was credited with 133 days already served in jail.

Prosecutors additional alleged that between Oct. 21, w2020, and March 2, 2021, Perkins obtained $4,038 in unemployment advantages in Illinois whereas he nonetheless was within the Will County jail and never eligible to obtain that cash.

Prosecutors additionally accused Perkins of receiving unemployment advantages from Indiana on the similar time.

Between April 11, 2021, and April 20, 2021, Clark was accused by prosecutors of receiving a $20,833 PPP mortgage by falsely claiming his sole proprietor enterprise had a gross income of $109,763 in 2019.

Prosecutors charged Clark with receiving that mortgage whereas he was indicted in a 2021 case in Will County, which nonetheless is pending in courtroom.

Clark is charged in that case with unlawfully possessing a .45-caliber handgun after he was convicted of a earlier felony. He’s additionally charged with aggravated illegal use of a weapon, obstructing a police officer, resisting a police officer and fleeing from an officer.

Prosecutors alleged that Orasco obtained a PPP mortgage value $20,833 by falsely claiming her sole proprietor enterprise had a gross income of $106,000 in 2019.

Orasco additionally was accused by prosecutors of receiving the mortgage although she was dealing with costs of armed violence in a 2019 case in Will County. That case nonetheless is pending. Orasco was charged with possessing a 9 mm handgun and possessing cocaine with intent to ship.