| Queens
Woman Was
Charged With
PPP Fraud Pled
to Misdemeanor
Now Gets Time
Served
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 31 – Prosecutors
on Wednesday
announced
charges
against a
Queens woman
with Paycheck
Protection
Program and
unemployment
fraud - then
quickly agreed
to her release
on unsecured
bond.
Inner
City Press was
there, the
only media in
the
Magistrates
Court.
The
announcement
was about
"charging
JASMIN GADSON,
an employee of
the Port
Authority of
New York and
New Jersey,
with wire
fraud and
theft of
government
funds for
submitting
fraudulent
applications
to obtain
unemployment
insurance
benefits from
the New York
State
Department of
Labor at the
height of the
COVID-19
pandemic in
2020 and
2021.
During that
period, GADSON
also allegedly
submitted
fraudulent
applications
for loans
under the
United States
Small Business
Administration’s
(“SBA”)
Paycheck
Protection
Program
(“PPP”).
GADSON was
arrested this
morning and
will be
presented this
afternoon
before U.S.
Magistrate
Judge Stewart
D. Aaron in
Manhattan
federal
court."
It
was before 1
pm when Gadson
was brought
into U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrates
Court, and was
given a free
Federal
Defender. The
Assistant US
Attorney told
Judge Aaron of
the terms of
release.
Ms.
Gadson walked
into the
clerk's office
to sign her
bond, and
later walked
west on Pearl
Street toward
Foley
Square.
Jump cut to
October 18,
2023 - Inner
City Press was
in the SDNY
Magistrates
Court when
Gadson came in
to plead
guilty to a
misdemeanor,
six to twelve
month
guideline -
and an
agreement to
never work not
only for the
Port Authority
but apparently
any other
government
agency.
Sentencing was
set for
January 19,
2024 before
Magistrate
Judge Cott.
On
January 11,
the US
Attorney's
Office wrote
it requesting
a time served
sentence.
On
January 31,
Inner City
Press attended
the
sentencing. It
was not
explained why,
beyond mercy,
this defendant
received such
a lighter
charge and
sentence than
others: no
jail time at
all, paying
$78,000 to the
US Marshals
and perhaps
through them
partially to
Cross River
Bank. She
agreed to not
seek state or
Federal
employment and
now works at
Con Edison.
Mercy is nice,
but it should
be available
to all, and
its grant
should be
transparent.
We have more
more on this.
The
case is US v.
Gadson,
23-cr-532
(Cott)
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