Tiawana Brown is a councilwoman in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Tiawana Brown is a remarkable individual who has overcome domestic violence and mass incarceration…Tia is a mother of two adult daughters, Antoinette and Tijema. Tijema was born while Tia was serving her federal sentence, making her birth occur in a federal prison.
She was elected in 2023. According to the reports I’ve found, she was convicted of felony fraud in 1994 and served four years.
She was indicted today, along with her two daughters.
Charlotte City Councilwoman Tiawana Brown threw herself a $15,000 birthday party with a throne and a horse-drawn carriage using COVID pandemic relief funds wired to her nonprofit, federal prosecutors say.
She and one of her daughters also are accused of using relief money to purchase items from luxury brand Louis Vuitton.
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She and her daughters face federal charges of using fake, never-filed IRS forms and lying on loan applications for relief funds, according to a federal indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Thursday.
From the US Attorney’s press release:
“According to allegations in the indictment, between April 2020 and September 2021, the defendants conspired to execute a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and its Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and obtain COVID pandemic relief funds for their purported businesses, through the submission of loan applications that contained false information or false documentation. It is alleged that the false documentation generally included fake and fraudulent tax forms, among other misrepresentations. It is further alleged that the defendants submitted false statements to obtain forgiveness of the PPP loans. In total, the defendants allegedly submitted at least 15 applications for EIDL or PPP funds and falsely obtained at least $124,165 in connection with their scheme to defraud.”
Charlotte Observer (archived). WBTV, which includes a Scribd version of the indictment.
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