April 03, 2023
The main beneficiary of a fraud that ripped off more than $400,000 in COVID-19 relief funds from the city of West Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced Monday to 8 years in federal prison, significantly longer than the U.S. Sentencing Commission's guidelines would recommend for his convictions on substantive wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy charges.
March 23, 2023
A second defendant was sentenced Thursday to spend six months behind bars and to pay more than $147,000 in restitution in a COVID-19 relief scam that defrauded hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Connecticut municipal government.
March 22, 2023
A former Connecticut city employee was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 13 months behind bars and ordered to pay nearly $59,000 in restitution for scheming with others to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of federal COVID-19 relief payments from a municipal government.
March 21, 2023
A Connecticut man convicted of stealing COVID-19 relief funds from the city of West Haven has a long criminal record and "little respect for the law," and he deserves to spend years in prison, federal prosecutors said Tuesday in asking a judge for an upward deviation from sentencing guidelines.
December 05, 2022
A co-conspirator of a former Connecticut state representative who worked to steal more than $400,000 in COVID-19 relief funds for his own companies from the city of West Haven, Connecticut, was found guilty of conspiracy and fraud offenses on Friday.
November 02, 2022
A former Connecticut state representative has pled guilty to conspiracy charges resulting from his involvement in three schemes that led to the theft of more than $1.2 million in COVID-19 relief and other funds from the City of West Haven, Connecticut.