Mobile woman pleads guilty to COVID-19 benefit fraud

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A Wandering woman convicted of a crime murder-for-hire plot He pleaded guilty today to defrauding the federal government on Covid-19 aid.

Lyteria Hollis pleaded guilty to wire fraud. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to ask the judge to dismiss the money laundering charges.

Hollis admitted that he falsely claimed to be the sole owner of a hair salon business since 2017, and that the business generated $95,000 in gross income in the 2019 tax year. According to this information, the federal government paid Hollis almost $20,000 under COVID in 2021. era paycheck protection program.

Prosecutors agreed to recommend that his sentence in the murder-for-hire case be served concurrently with his prison sentence. He will be sentenced in this case in March.

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