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BALTIMORE COUNTY - A U.S. district court sentenced Baltimore resident Robert Hopkins to 51 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, according to police.
A judge has also ordered the 37-year-old to pay $456,784 in restitution. According to Hopkinsās guilty plea, he and his 46-year-old accomplice Keon Ball incurred over $1,000,000 in charges on fraudulently established credit lines.
Police say the duo used stolen social security numbers and names to spend over $150,000 at a home improvement store and later purchased heavy construction equipment valued at $300,000 using the same method.
Hopkins and Ball founded four shell companies to apply for $664,450 in fraudulent Payment Protection Program loans. They additionally filed false tax documents claiming to have paid wages to multiple W-2 employees and withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal income tax, according to police.
In reality, the fake businesses had no employees, and the loans were never distributed to Hopkins and Ball.
According to court documents, they caused more than $449,000 in damages and would have caused a loss of $1,100,000 had their PPP loans been granted.
I hope that the plan include walk paths, open spaces with seating to view nature and consequences for people littering, loitering and killing the wildlife.Ā
I canāt believe these are our āleadersā. Drugs dealsĀ on every corner and in every parking lot. Johnny Clueless so concerned about low income earners, when they live better than the middle class. Garbage bags littered everywhere by mostly the people Johnny āentitledā to county houses.
My concern about some of the logic being used here is that the problem isn't the plastic bags.
Let's talk about the people who are doing the littering. Full garbage bags placed on the streets and sideways.Ā Garbage being thrown from cars and trucks. Pedestrians walking and eating..than throwing garbage on the ground. Dog walkers not picking up after their dogs. Etc..