An alpaca farm and vintage car: Feds say former Massachusetts pizzeria owner used $660K in COVID-relief funds for personal use MassLive.com 5/4/2021 Benjamin Kail, masslive.com
A former Massachusetts man falsely claimed nearly 50 employees worked at his Beverly pizzeria to obtain more than half a million dollars in COVID-19 relief before selling the place and going on a personal spending spree that included a Vermont alpaca farm, federal authorities allege.
Dana L. McIntyre, 57, of Grafton, Vermont, faces charges of wire fraud and money laundering after federal investigators said he filed a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loan application for his Rasta Pasta Pizzeria in April of 2020.
BOSTON A former North Shore resident was arrested today in connection with allegedly filing a fraudulent loan application in order to obtain over $660,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan funds and using those funds for personal expenses, including an alpaca farm in Vermont.
Dana L. McIntyre, of Grafton, Vt. and previously of Beverly and Essex, Mass., was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. McIntyre will make a virtual initial appearance in federal court in Boston this afternoon.
McIntyre is the former owner of Rasta Pasta Pizzeria in Beverly. As alleged in the complaint, in April 2020, McIntyre submitted a fraudulent application for a PPP loan of over $660,000 through a Small Business Administration (SBA) approved lender. In the application, McIntyre allegedly inflated information about the pizzeria s employees and payroll expenses and falsified an official tax form in an effort to qualify the business for a
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BOSTON – A former North Shore resident was arrested on May 4 in connection with allegedly filing a fraudulent loan application in order to obtain over $660,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan funds and using those funds for personal expenses, including an alpaca farm in Vermont.
Dana L. McIntyre, 57, of Grafton, Vermont, and previously of Beverly and Essex, was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. McIntyre was expected to make a virtual initial appearance in federal court in Boston Tuesday afternoon.
McIntyre is the former owner of Rasta Pasta Pizzeria in Beverly. As alleged in the complaint, in April 2020, McIntyre submitted a fraudulent application for a PPP loan of over $660,000 through a Small Business Administration (SBA) approved lender.
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