Graduation season is well underway but while most 12-year-olds are finishing elementary school, Megyn Bolen has put herself in a completely different category.
By WMAY Newsroom
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A Springfield woman is facing fraud charges after allegedly obtaining emergency federal aid for a business that didn’t exist.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 41-year-old Amber Bolen of Gregory Court applied for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan last July, through a program related to COVID-19 relief. She claimed to own a business called “amber bolen” which she said had 11 employees and annual revenues of more than $90,000.
Prosecutors say the business was imaginary… but that she obtained a $41,000 loan, with proceeds wired directly to her bank account. Bolen could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted of defrauding an emergency aid program, and 20 years if convicted of wire fraud.