It looks like Austin St. John was arrested in an FBI raid, according to People, for allegedly trying to scam the Small Business Paycheck Protection Program that was supposed to help small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 lockdowns. People reported that St. John was one of 18 people arrested in the raid, who allegedly conned the government out of $3.5 million in phony small business loans. If found guilty, he could be looking at up to 20 years in prison.
If St. John is guilty of PPP loan fraud he's hardly alone. According to NBC, fraudsters have stolen as much as $80 billion in PPP loans since the program first began in 2020, possibly making it the biggest fraud in the history of the United States. But as far as we can tell, St. John is the only alleged PPP loan thief to have been a Power Ranger, so at least there's that.
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