AFlorida roofer who allegedly spent nearly $700,000 in federal Paycheck Protection Program money to buy a 40-ft-long pleasure boat is the latest of four individuals with construction-related businesses ensnared in fraud charges related to the COVID-19 small business rescue program, federal prosecutors say.

35岁的凯西·克林瑟（Casey Crowther）被指控在申请中对金融机构作出虚假陈述，仅为210万美元的屋顶业务，目标屋顶和钣金公司的资金。

Crowther在他的贷款申请中承诺使用这笔钱来制作工资单，支付租金和公用事业，并符合其他商业费用，但在收到的几天内，他据称购买了一个新的40英尺的双体船船约689,417美元，他在他的注册name, claimed U. S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez in a press release.

Crowther also allegedly transferred $100,000 to the bank account of a former stakeholder of his Fort Myers-based company who resigned more than six months ago, according to a copy of the criminal complaint filed by Brian Kirby, a senior special agent for the U.S. Secret Service, which is investigating the case.

Facing up to 30 years in prison if convicted, Crowther is the principal in one of a handful of construction-related companies charged in connection with the $649-billion PPP program. A spokesman for Target Roofing & Sheet Metal declined to comment on the charges on Sept. 14.

Design and construction companiesmade up the largest segment申请并批准在PPP下批准的公司，该公司由美国小型工商管理计划经营。承包商协会很难关注使术语尽可能友好for construction contractors, especially related to permitted uses of funds, the time period in which they must be spent and terms that would allow loans to be forgiven. Although the final list of companies that used approved loans remains unknown, based on the long list of firms approved, tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of jobs were likely saved.

SBA贷款信息提供给银行

银行发挥了关键作用，从客户收集信息并根据向银行提供的信息进行信誉值得判断。

超过三个不同类型的借款人被指控误解或滥用资金，包括弗吉尼亚州弗吉尼亚州的假释，一部好莱坞电影制片人，佐治亚现实电视明星和华盛顿的软件工程师。

Construction-related companies charged include Minnesota contractor Kyle Brenizer, whom federal officials claim committed “COVID-relief fraud” and money laundering after transferring the vast majority of $841,000 in PPP loan money into an unrelated account, then allegedly usIng it for personal expenses.

Brenizer, owner of True-Cut Construction, allegedly spent $29,000 on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and another $1,000 on golfing expenses, according to U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald.

Brenizer was initially rejected for a PPP loan and warned last December to stop doing business after his contractor’s license had expired.

根据对他的指控，他根据他所说的另一个人的名义提交了第二次申请，他声称拥有30名员工，每月薪资为336,400美元。

Both claims were false, say prosecutors, who contend Brenizer also lied when he claimed to not to have any pending criminal charges, despite the fact he faced “multiple felony charges” in Minnesota for “check forgery, identify theft and theft by swindle.”

检察官表示，钢笔还提交了“欺诈的银行陈述和美国国税局文件，如伪造的银行陈述和美国国税局文件”，以支持他的PPP申请。

In July, the owner of a small Washington, D.C. construction company was charged with fraudulently obtaining two PPP loans worth more than $400,000, and a Texas engineer was accused of trying to obtain $10 million in loans to support 250 employees, when in fact there was no one on the payroll.

这个故事是9月14日更新的，反映了一个针对目标屋顶和钣金的公司发言人拒绝评论目前对凯西人群的指控。