By NYC Gazette |
Jun 19, 2024
Anuli Okeke, the former vice president and manager of a New York branch of Popular Bank, was convicted yesterday afternoon by a federal jury in Brooklyn on all four counts of an indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy. The charges arose from a scheme led by Okeke to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The verdict followed a one-week trial before...