A California man was charged with stealing $ 22 million in PPP loans

San Francisco – Prof. California A man convicted five years ago of defrauding several local governments in the state was charged with trying to steal $ 22 million from the Paycheck Protection Program.

Attila Kollar, 48, of Richmond, who uses several aliases including Dahoud Sheriff Bay, was accused of bank fraud in an alleged scheme where he forged documents to take advantage of the federal program aimed at keeping small businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. The US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said Friday.

Collard faces up to 30 years in prison and a $ 1 million fine if convicted.

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Prosecutors sought to keep him in prison during the trial of the case by telling the court that Kollar had tried to destroy records related to the PPP’s requests by dumping them in the toilet when investigators executed a search warrant at his home in Hercules.

According to a criminal complaint, he submitted nine loan applications, including three to All Hands on Deck, a nonprofit he founded to provide services to people released from jail or prison, and received $ 1.1 million from one of those requests. Prosecutors said he falsified payroll tax documents to make it appear as if he was paying employees more than $ 22 million, when there were no W2 forms to support the claim.

Defense attorney Patrick Hanley wrote in a memorandum demanding Kollard’s release, none of the loan funds have been spent.

“This is not a lost paper crime.” Hanley wrote: A fraud case involving allegations of false data regarding a loan application. “The proceeds of the loan remained in the defendant’s account for more than two weeks before they were seized by the FBI.”

East Bay Times Reports Kolar was the leader of an Oakland black Muslim temple and a group that was affiliated with Your Black Muslim Bakery, after the bakery leader was arrested and later convicted of ordering the murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey.

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Kolar was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to five years in prison for providing false documents to win security contracts with Alameda County, the Los Angeles Water and Energy Administration and the Los Angeles City Housing Authority.