Alexandria, VA An Alexandria woman pleaded guilty today to money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud members of a Christian organization, announced Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Washington, D.C. Field Office, IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
According to court documents, Brenda Millender was the wife of Pastor Terry Millender and the First Lady of Victorious Life Church in Alexandria. Terry Millender created a company called Kingdom Commodities Unlimited (KCU), which marketed itself as a Christian organization that was looking for investors to provide financing to help facilitate and broker Nigerian oil sales. Individual investors provided money to Terry Millender from 2013 to 2016 based on his false and fraudulent representations about how their money would be used, as well as material omissions about how funds would be disbursed.
Norfolk, VA - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to bank fraud by submitting a fraudulent application for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, and then using the loan proceeds for his own personal benefit including making large cash withdrawals and travel to Las Vegas. Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington, D.C. Field Office, IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) made the announcement.
According to court documents, Scott Suber submitted to Celtic Bank a fraudulent application for a loan under the PPP, a program instituted by Congress in an effort to help businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to pay salary or wages to their employees. In the application, it was falsely represented that Suber s business, Debris or Not Debris Property Preservation, Inc., had eight employees and an average monthly payroll of $140,000. In support of the fraudulent application, a false Form 941, Employer s Quarterly Federal Tax Return was submitted, claiming