A Florida pastor and his son have been arrested on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $8 million in federal Covid relief funds and attempting to use some of the money to buy a luxury home near Disney World.
A Florida pastor and his son were arrested Wednesday on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $8 million in federal Covid relief funds and attempting to use some of the money to buy a luxury home near Disney World.raised questions over why they hadn’t been charged for the alleged scam, which federal prosecutors first identified in court papers in December 2020.
Florida police officers pulled over the family’s Mercedes SUV later that evening. They were speeding on I-75 north of Gainesville, according to a police report. The family was taken into custody on an unrelated immigration charge but released the next day when the case was dismissed, according to court records.
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