The confiscations have included Lamborghinis, gold bars and luxury goods from Dior. But this may be the strangest crisis to date. Feds...
The confiscations have included Lamborghinis, gold bars and luxury goods from Dior.
But this may be the strangest crisis to date. Feds say they didn’t know at first what to do with a rare Pokémon trading card they seized from a Georgia man who had used coronavirus relief money to buy the collectible .
The man, Vinath Oudomsine, 31, of Dublin, Georgia, was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Friday, according to prosecutors, who said he pleaded guilty last October to defrauding a loan scheme managed by the Small Business Administration.
In January 2021, Mr. Oudomsine spent $57,789 of the program’s loan proceeds on the card, an early edition Charizard released in 1999 that features a dragon-like creature from the Pokémon franchise, according to court documents.
Five months earlier, he received an $85,000 loan from the program for his small “entertainment services” business, which prosecutors say had 10 employees and gross income of $235,000 in the previous 12 months. the pandemic. However, prosecutors said there were no such cases.
There has been a steady stream of high-profile cases involving the embezzlement of coronavirus relief funds. President Biden said during his State of the Union Address last week that he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate such cases.
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