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   LOS ANGELES — A California man who fraudulently obtained almost $3 million   
   in COVID-19 business loans and jobless benefits has been sentenced to 63   
   months in federal prison, the Justice Department announced June 7.   
      
   Arman Grigoryan, 42, was sentenced late in the afternoon June 6 by U.S.   
   District Judge Dolly M. Gee, who also ordered him to pay $2,880,259 in   
   restitution.   
      
   “When confronted with the COVID pandemic that has claimed the lives of   
   almost 7 million persons worldwide to date, [Grigoryan] instead saw an   
   opportunity to bilk taxpayers out of the emergency funds their government   
   generously made available to ameliorate job losses,” prosecutors wrote in   
   a sentencing memorandum. “Such criminal opportunism during a global health   
   and economic emergency is egregious.”   
   Grigoryan pleaded guilty in October 2021 to one count of conspiracy to   
   commit bank fraud. He has been in federal custody since July 2022 after a   
   court determined he had violated the terms of his pretrial release.   
      
   During 2020 and continuing through late September of that year, Grigoryan   
   and used other people’s identities to apply for unemployment insurance   
   benefits through California’s Employment Development Department (EDD).   
   Once the EDD approved the false and fraudulent unemployment insurance   
   applications, a bank issued to Grigoryan and his accomplices debit cards   
   containing the funds intended for the false identities. Grigoryan and   
   others then used the fraudulently obtained debit cards to withdraw cash.   
      
   Grigoryan and others also used other people’s identities and shell   
   companies to apply for loans intended to help businesses weather the   
   economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. They did so by submitting   
   falsified payroll information and attaching forged tax forms as support.   
      
   Once the banks approved the business loans, Grigoryan and his accomplices   
   rapidly withdrew the COVID business relief funds by writing checks to co-   
   conspirators and shell companies, and by withdrawing the funds in cash.   
      
   In total, Grigoryan caused at least $2,880,259 in actual losses through   
   the conspiracy.   
      
   Homeland Security Investigations’ El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task   
   Force investigated the case in conjunction with the Small Business   
   Administration’s Office of the Inspector General and the California   
   Employment Development Department.   
      
   https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-financial-crimes-task-   
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