Between April 2020 and April 2021, Carruthers submitted 12 loan applications through the ‘’Paycheck Protection Program,” (PPP), which was an SBA-administered program that provided forgivable loans to businesses to encourage them to keep workers employed during the pandemic.

The message should be clear for anyone who stole these funds for personal enrichment, our HSI agents and partners are committed to holding you accountable.”Īccording to the plea agreement, in approximately April 2020, Carruthers began to submit electronic applications for pandemic relief loans in the names of various business entities he purported to own and control. “Today, three years after the start of the pandemic, we are still investigating fraud and working to ensure that those who received this money did so honestly and justly. “This case shows the efforts some will take to defraud their fellow community members and taxpayers,” said HSI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Angie M. “My office takes pandemic fraud extremely seriously, and we will continue to dedicate resources to bringing those who perpetrated such frauds to justice.” Carruthers is a dollar that did not go to a small business that needed help during the pandemic,” said United States Attorney Ison. “Ryan Carruthers stole nearly a million dollars from programs intended to help our community weather an unprecedented national crisis. The guilty plea arose out of Carruthers’ participation in a wide-ranging scheme to fraudulently obtain loans from two pandemic relief programs overseen by the Small Business Administration (SBA).

Ryan Carruthers, 32, entered a plea of guilty to one count of wire fraud before United States District Judge Paul D.

Salazar, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). DETROIT - A Commerce Township resident pleaded guilty today to orchestrating a fraud scheme involving approximately $851,000 in loans intended to help small businesses stay afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic, United States Attorney Dawn N.

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