Past business partner of influencer who led $1 million coronavirus con said she 'terrifies' him

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A social media influencer pleaded guilty after she obtained around $1.5 million in pandemic relief funds to pay for a lavish lifestyle that she flaunted online. Her former business partner hopes the plea encourages other victims to come forward.

to pay for a lavish lifestyle that she flaunted online. Her former business partner and friend, a victim of her scheming years before her latest con, said he was relieved and anxious to hear the news of her plea.

Dae, 34, who met Miller in 2018 through a mutual friend, said over the phone that he worried she had “something up her sleeve or some kind of angle” in pleading guilty. He maintained, however, that her arrest “should have happened sooner.”Prosecutors say Danielle Miller used stolen identities to get more than $1 million in Small Business Administration loans. She then allegedly spent taxpayer money to feed her luxurious lifestyle that she detailed online.

In a video hearing on Monday, Miller agreed in a plea deal to forfeit $1.3 million and serve a six-year sentence in prison. She is already serving a five-year sentence for a conviction in a separate Florida bank fraud case in October. Dae said their partnership began to dissolve after he noticed a number of red flags and caught Miller spinning numerous lies about their business and personal lives and various funds. He called it “a total social nightmare.”, involved Miller using multiple email accounts under the names of her father and her father’s secretary to try to pressure Dae to act on various issues.

That was the last straw for Dae. He contacted the police in Los Angeles where they lived, who pulled Miller in for a psychiatric evaluation. While she was gone, he found a debit card in his name that he had never opened. He then discovered she had used his name to apply for credit cards, including an American Express card. She had opened accounts with Cash App, Venmo, Charles Schwab and numerous others in his name as well. She even tried to take out a loan in his name to buy a Tesla, he said.

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While healthcare workers like me 0

I hope that she looks good in orange.

This story is now a week old. Can we MOVE ON

It was easier to apply for a loan she had no business asking for than for US citizen to adjust immigration status of a spouse. Yeah, too boring to report on it. Maybe on a slow news day someone can google this issue and report on it. cnnbrk ABC CBSNews

'That entire experience, he said, drove him to quit working in PR and social media. Now he’s found his new passion working in New York at a data center focused on cryptocurrency. ' hahahahahahah this dude jumped from one failed scammer to a whole industry of them

Uh... nothing to see here.

Marian is beautiful! What a figure!

Democrats

All Hollywood should return the money as well

Pled?

did she get her likes though?

I have an odd feeling there will be millions of those cases and every one should have to give back $ if they cheated.

This is why I do not follow any influencers….they are fake.

How tf did the govt mail out checks without any little bit of investigation? I don’t care WHO was in charge of such they should be held financially liable.

Can't wait to see where the 'infrastructure' money is going. Only those crooks will be praised. Not arrested.

The PPP loan program was a giant scam

Lol

Taylor Lorenz?

Exactly why some of us small businesses who were trying to survive got zippo bc people like u! yousuck

'That entire experience, he said, drove him to quit working in PR and social media. Now he’s found his new passion working in New York at a data center focused on cryptocurrency. ' hahahahahahah this dude jumped from one failed scammer to a whole industry of them

Lol from the country that invented corporate welfare: “Corporate welfare is only for the mega wealthy, not you lumpenprols with petite bourgeois aspirations”. My heart hardly bleeds for this person but the hypocrisy mfg lol

Damn,who snitched?

Now do RepMTG mattgaetz

No different that what member of Congress did.

Gaetz kept his

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