He Took $3.8M in COVID Money and Lied His Way In. Now His Citizenship Is Gone.

By Ben Smith

A federal judge in Florida just made something clear. U.S. citizenship is not a shield for people who lie their way into it while committing crimes against the American public. In this case, the court stripped that status from a Haitian-born South Florida man tied to a multi-million-dollar COVID-19 fraud scheme, and the outcome is exactly what the law requires.

According to federal prosecutors, Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint was involved in a scheme that submitted dozens of fraudulent COVID-19 loan applications, netting roughly $3.8 million in relief funds intended for struggling businesses.

“According to federal prosecutors, Philossaint carried out the fraud scheme between April 2020 and May 2021… securing about $3.8 million in loan proceeds.”

Authorities say the applications included false information about revenue and payroll, and that Philossaint personally received hundreds of thousands of dollars through the scheme. That alone warranted serious prison time, which he received. But the citizenship issue goes further…

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (redstate.com)

 

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