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Jury convicts Winchester man for fraudulent pandemic relief loan for company whose few workers were in India

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A federal jury today convicted Elijah Majak Buoi, 40, on four counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, the US Attorney's office reports.

A judge set sentencing for June 16, following the verdict, which came after a three-day trial in US District Court in Boston.

Buoi was one of the first people in the Boston area to be arrested on pandemic fraud charges, back in June, 2020. Rejected on his first three attempts to gain Paycheck Protection Program loan/grants, he hit pay dirt on his fourth, garnering $2 million to help support the 96 people he claimed he employed at his consulting company, Sosuda Tech, LLC.

In fact, his company may have only had five employees, and all of them lived in India, making them ineligible for any federal money.

His $2-million payment quickly triggered alarms somewhere: His payment was deposited in his bank in early June and he was arrested on June 22. That means, the US Attorney's office says, officials were able to recover $1.97 million of the money.

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… sometimes for people to prove they honestly qualify for SNAP or MassHealth. Yet this guy got hold of 2 million dollars of government money.

I guess if you present as a business person, or you did during the last administration, you had better chances.

May his sentence come down on him like a ton of bricks.

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