Cindy Gonzalez
Nebraska Examiner
An Omaha woman was sentenced this week to a year in prison for her role in a conspiracy case that the U.S. Attorney of Nebraska said yielded $1.15 million in fraudulent loans.
U.S. District Judge Brian Buescher also sentenced Jazmyne McMiller, 36, to three years of supervised release following her prison time and ordered her to pay restitution of $267,000.
McMiller was the third defendant convicted n a conspiracy to commit wire fraud case.
According to an announcement Friday by Acting U.S. Attorney Susan Lehr, the three defendants submitted applications in 2020 and 2021 for Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan program loans. The federal PPP and EIDL programs were designed to provide aid to people struggling economically from the pandemic.
Information from the three misrepresented employee pay and revenue from applicant businesses, Lehr’s statement said. The applications reportedly were supported by false documents that one of the defendants helped prepare, including false tax forms that each defendant signed.
In total, the three submitted fraudulent applications seeking $2.24 million in loans and obtained $1.15 million, the state U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
In February, Buescher sentenced defendant Sharon Thompson, 62, of Oakland, Nebraska, to four years of probation for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
She also was ordered to pay restitution of $355,000.
In May, Todd Thompson, 57, of Oakland, was ordered to serve 41 months in prison, and to pay restitution of $1.19 million.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation also worked on the case.
