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A Bergen County man stole his dead brother’s identity to get a $150,000 COVID economic disaster loan, said federal authorities who arrested him Thursday.
Nathanael Zimmerman, 40, of Wyckoff also orchestrated a mortgage fraud scheme among applicants for Federal Housing Administration-FHA insured loans, submitting bogus bank statements and collecting a portion of the proceeds, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said.
The loans defaulted and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development lost more than $300,000, she said.
Last year, Zimmerman used his deceased brother’s personal identification information to obtain a U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) in his name, Honig said.
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A North Jersey ID thief used personal information stolen from 20 people to file $1 million worth of unemployment claims to New York State, federal authorities said.
Federal agents tracked all of the claims for benefits to a single IP address and telephone number belonging to Maurice Mills, 28, of Union Township, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
Surveillance cameras also caught Mills using an unemployment insurance benefits debit card to make an ATM withdrawal, he said.
“Many of these claims were in the names of individuals located in Texas and directed the benefits to be sent to locations in New Jersey,” Carpenito said.