Courtney Merritt, husband of former Democratic Representative Cori Bush, has been federally indicted on two counts of wire fraud. He is accused of submitting fraudulent applications to the Small Business Administration to obtain government funds through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cori Bush's husband charged with felony wire fraud?
Courtney.
Courtney Merritt's the husband of former Democratic representative,
the squad, Cori Bush, Missouri.
was indicted on wire fraud charges related
to the Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID pandemic.
Well, I know about 500 people that cheated that system out of millions.
It's about time I start turning them in.
And I know you know who you are.
That was taxpayers' money,
not money for you to defraud the government of.
Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney for the D.C. District,
unsealed the indictment against Courtney Merritt on Thursday.
Merritt is accused of lying on his applications
for COVID paycheck protection programs
and funds, the PPP,
and economic injury disaster loans.
What they had us do, I was a cognitive...
Behavioralists at the time, teaching our bosses so they get paid.
A bunch of scumballs.
I actually didn't know what they were doing
at the time, but I figured it out.
Merritt was hit with two counts of wire fraud
for falsifying applications to obtain more than $20 million in loans
that probably turned into grants.
And he'll be, well, they'll never ask for the money back, right?
Quote, Courtney Merritt, 46, of St. Louis, Missouri.
So many great people like Jasmine Crockett come out
of St. Louis, Missouri.
He was charged today by federal indictment
with two counts of wire fraud for allegedly
filing fraudulent applications.
the Small Business Administration in 2020
and 2021 allowed him to collect more than
$20,000 in government funds under
the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, the EIDL, and
the PPP, or Paycheck Protection Program.
The DOJ announced.
Now, I did say that they would go
for the low-hanging fruit to try to keep you busy.
So keep your ears open.
Quote, according to the indictment on July 7,
2020, Merritt received an $8,500 EIDL loan
from the SBA for a moving business he operated
that he called Vetted Cruisers.
In the application he submitted for Vetted Cruisers,
Merritt certified that his business
had six employees
and had generated $32,000 in gross revenue between January 30th, 2019
and January 30th, 2020.
The DOJ goes on because they're after the low-hanging fruit.
On July 8, 2020, Merritt submitted another application to the SBA,
Small Business Association,
for another EIDL loan in the name
of a sole partnership he called Courtney Merritt.
In this EIDL application,
Merritt fraudulently claimed to have businesses that employed 10 people
and generated $53,000 in gross revenue.
Between January 30th, 2019 and January 30th,
2020, in addition to an EIDL loan, Merritt also
requested an EIDL advance of up to $10,000 based
on his false claims that he had 10 employees.
The SBA rejected Merritt's attempt to obtain additional EIDL funds.
After it was determined that his 2020 application
was nearly identical to the prior one he had already submitted,
the DOJ said, again,
they're not going to let y'all watch the good ball.
They're going to let y'all watch the girls game.
The Justice Department was investigating Cori Bush and Cori
Bush's 2024 election campaign after a government watchdog group
has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission,
the FEC, to investigate campaign
payments of $62,359 from Bush to her husband,
Courtney Merritts, for what?
Protection for security services.
I mean, can I even guess that?
This is a separate investigation that's ongoing,
and the charges unsealed on Thursday are unrelated.
To these security services probes,
the statute of this investigation is unclear, but you're
dealing with nothing but a criminal here,
and thankfully, the people of Missouri got
her out of office.
Hopefully, they'll put her under the jail where she belongs.
God bless.
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