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Former Cincinnati mayoral candidate Kelli Prather charged in COVID-19 fraud case Sharon Coolidge and Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer © Provided Kelli Prather Popular Searches A federal complaint unsealed Tuesday afternoon charges Prather with five counts: making false statements to a federal agency, aggravated identify theft, bank fraud, unauthorized disclosure of a social security number, and making false statements in loan and credit applications. Prather is one of four people charged federally in separate cases with defrauding COVID-19 pandemic relief funding programs. The four are alleged to have lied about owning businesses and employing others. According to the U.S. Attorney s Office, some defendants applied multiple times for relief funding, and some spent the funding they received on personal items and vacation travel.

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