Instagram influencer pleads guilty to $1,500,000 Covid relief fund fraud

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Instagram influencer pleads guilty to $1,500,000 Covid relief fund fraud
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A social media influencer in the US has pleaded guilty to scamming the US government out of almost $1.5million in COVID relief funds 💰

Instagram influencer Danielle Miller pleaded guilty to scamming the government out of almost $1.5million in COVID relief funds

Miller, who has been arrested in five different states over the course of the last decade, lived as a New York City and Los Angeles socialite through fraud after her parents cut her off.in an extensive profile in February 2022. She told the magazine that she rode each fraud opportunity like a wave, and ‘COVID was a huge wave.’Federal investigators found that Miller’s IP address in Florida was used to access 27 different accounts at myRMV – the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles website.

Investigators were eventually able to identify Miller by tracking payments made to a fraudulent bank account opened in the Massachusetts victim’s name. ‘Miller maintained an active social media presence via her Instagram account, which had more than 34,000 followers,’ US Attorney Rachael Rosen said. ‘There, Miller posted her extravagant use of the fraud proceeds and stolen identities, publicizing her purchasing of luxury goods and renting of luxury accommodations.’According to photos posted on her Instagram page, Miller used the funds to buy Louis Vuitton and Prada handbags, Valentino shoes, and clothing from Chanel and Gucci.

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