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Missouri Rep. Cori Bush’s Husband Indicted for Pandemic Fraud
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Federal prosecutors have charged the husband of former far-left Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) with two counts of wire fraud related to filing fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and other loan applications with the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2020 and 2021. Cortney Merritts, 46, of St. Louis, Missouri, used fraudulent applications to attain over $20,000 in forgiven loans from the federal government, according to United States Attorney Edward Martin Jr.
The Department of Justice states that in 2020, Merritts received an $8,500 COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) from the SBA for his business, Vetted Couriers—a moving company. On the loan application, Merritts claimed his company had six total employees and “$32,000 in gross revenue between January 30, 2019 and January 30, 2020.”
Subsequently, in July 2020, Merritts filed for a second EIDL loan under a sole proprietorship called “Courtney Merritts.” In this application, he “fraudulently claimed to have a business that employed ten people and generated $53,000 in gross revenue between January 30, 2019, and January 30, 2020.” Additionally, Merritts requested an EIDL advance of…
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