MIAMI – Federal prosecutors accused two Venezuelan migrants living in Broward County of defrauding a government program that was meant to help small businesses protect jobs during the pandemic.
Records show the case involved FU & MM General Services, an active corporation registered in 2019 in Florida out of an apartment in Dania Beach.
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According to federal inmate records, Freddy Jesus Urribarri, the president of the company, was at the Federal Detention Center Miami on Tuesday when the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Florida announced the case.
Federal agents with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations in Miami reported Urribarri, 42, and Mairilin Muñoz, the company’s vice president, were behind two fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, loan applications.
Prosecutors in Miami claim the federal government “accepted the false representations” about the company’s income and number of employees and approved a $438,000 loan.
Urribarri and Muñoz, 39, then allegedly “engaged in a scheme to conceal the nature of the funds.” They face charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.