| Florida Man Charged with
Theft from COVID 19 Program Freed
on Bail with Retained Lawyer
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 10 – One of six
defendants charged with
stealing from government
COVID-19 programs was
presented and freed on bail on
April 10 by U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Gary Stein.
Inner City Press was there,
the only media in the SDNY Mag
court.
The
prosecutors cite "a scheme to
fraudulently obtain checks and
launder the proceeds. Many of
the checks were funds provided
by the government for COVID-19
relief that the defendants
stole before depositing into
bank accounts opened using
sham businesses or stolen or
fake identities. In total, the
defendants attempted to steal
approximately $80 million and
succeeded in depositing
approximately $50
million."
This
defendant Ujkic was
represented by a lawyer from
Fort Lauderdale, admitted pro
hac vice. He was freed on
$100,000 bond with travel
including a district in
Florida and another in
Georgia.
The
overall case is USA v. Anand,
et al., 25-cr-110 (Castel /
Gary Stein)
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