Massachusetts man gets 2 years for buying alpaca farm with fraudulently-obtained COVID aid

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Massachusetts man gets 2 years for buying alpaca farm with fraudulently-obtained COVID aid
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A former Massachusetts business owner has been sentenced for fraudulently obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program loan, which was used to buy an alpaca farm in Vermont.

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A former pizzeria owner has been sentenced to two years in prison for using over $660,000 in fraudulently obtained pandemic relief funds to buy an alpaca farm. In 2020, Dana McIntyre, 59, of Grafton, Vermont, submitted a fraudulent application for a Paycheck Protection Program loan, prosecutors said. He inflated information about the pizzeria's employees and payroll expenses and falsified a tax form to try to qualify the business for a larger loan amount., sold his pizzeria and used nearly all of the money to buy an alpaca farm in Vermont and eight alpacas, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.

A former Massachusetts man, Dana McIntyre, was sentenced behind bars for fraudulently obtaining $660,000 in pandemic relief funds."Dana McIntyre capitalized on a national catastrophe and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a limited pool of money set aside to help struggling businesses, to buy a farm, stock it with alpacas, and make a fresh start for himself

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