Jerry Phillips, of Prince George's County, and several co-conspirators stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from programs intended to provide help during the pandemic, authorities said.
A 25-year-old Maryland man pleaded guilty Friday to illegally obtaining more than $1 million in federal pandemic relief funds through wire fraud and identity theft, authorities said.
A “ghost gun” is an unregistered firearm with no serial number, typically assembled from a kit that can be acquired online. In a scheme that began in March 2020 and continued until February 2022, authorities said, the federal relief funds were deposited into the bank accounts that had been opened under false names.“The money was then withdrawn by Phillips and his co-conspirators through ATM withdrawals and purchases made on the associated debit and credit cards or transferred between the various financial accounts established in the aliases’ names,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.
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