Reality star charged with spending funds from federal small business program on jewelry, Rolls-Royce

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Maurice “Mo” Fayne, from “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” is one of the first people to be charged with misusing the funds. He is fighting the charges in court.

Eighty-five thousand dollars in jewelry. A 2019 Rolls-Royce Wraith luxury coupe. Forty-thousand dollars in child support payments.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Fayne is the sole owner of a Georgia corporation called Flame Trucking that received a $2 million bank loan through the SBA’s relief package for small businesses, the Paycheck Protection Program.On May 13 Fayne was arrested and then charged with bank fraud. Prosecutors alleged he used more than $1.5 million on unauthorized purchases including the car, jewelry and child support.

Fayne’s lawyer, Atlanta attorney Tanya Miller, says he will fight the charges. She issued a statement to The Post saying that she would not try the case through the media and that the government needed to clear up confusion about the stimulus program’s rules. The FBI assisted with the investigation, along with the SBA’s Office of Inspector General. Agents searched Fayne’s home in Dacula, outside Atlanta, on May 11 and seized “approximately $80,000 in cash, including $9,400 that Fayne had in his pockets.” They also used seizure warrants to take control of approximately $503,000 of remaining PPP funds from three of Fayne’s bank accounts, according to the a.

 

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😂 The prosecutors probably entrapped him, & rushed the case because he was a black guy. Any good lawyer would have his case dismissed in court - the law’ vague on these funds, as they were rushed by Senate without much thought. Big Companies were asked to just pay back.

Probably not - the usual

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