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According to the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Illinois, Dana C. Howard, 52, owner of the construction company Zoie, LLC, and a former Illinois football legend, was indicted along with co-owner Richard Scott Myers, 63, and bookeeper. Glenn Sunnquist, 53.
Reportedly, Howard and Myers received a loan from the US Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic for their construction and trucking company, Zade Trucking.
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In April 2020, they accepted a PPP loan of more than 1.4 million dollars and said that more than 1.3 million dollars of this fund would be used for Zoie’s operating expenses and to pay workers during the epidemic.
Instead, Howard and Myers are accused of using the multi-million dollar loan for personal use and to benefit another business they own.
The lawsuit against the three men says that in 2020 Howard and Myers filed for bankruptcy, indicating that little money was left from the PPP loan, although $450,000 was still available to them through cashier’s checks.
Fortunately, Howard and Myers applied for another PPP loan of over $1 million. To support the loan forgiveness request, Sunnquist is accused of falsifying business cost records and altering old invoices.
In September 2022, the SBA, which handled the loan, denied the loan forgiveness.
The jury returned 13 cases on Monday against the men. Howard, Myers, and Sunnquist each face one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and two counts of wire fraud.
Howard is also charged with perjury, two counts of money laundering, and three counts of willful failure to pay taxes.
A grand jury indicted Myers on one count of money laundering and three counts of bankruptcy fraud.
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