Mississippi couple sentenced for multi-million-dollar COVID PPP fraud scheme

Mississippi couple sentenced for multi-million-dollar COVID PPP fraud scheme

A Marshall County couple, Lakisha and Robert Pearson from Holly Springs, Mississippi, has been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sharion Aycock for their roles in a PPP fraud scheme. Lakisha Pearson received a 75-month sentence to run consecutively with a previous 52-month sentence, totaling 127 months, while Robert Pearson was sentenced to 110 months for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They have been ordered to repay $3,364,052 in restitu…

Marshall County couple sentenced for COVID PPP fraud

The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) was a COVID-19 pandemic relief program administered by the Small Business Administration.