Thank goodness the federal authorities didn’t “shut down.”
Think about it — if the U.S. authorities wasn’t working for even a couple of days, consider the horrible penalties for all of the overseas freeloaders flopping amongst us.
Just ask Vinicius Santana, age 35, born in Brazil after which shipped off to a lifetime of leisure in Revere. After his multi-million-dollar heist from Uncle Sam, Vinicius took on the lam to Boca Raton together with his ill-gotten positive factors.
If anybody can communicate to the unbelievable beneficence of Uncle Sam, it could be Vinicius Santana, even from his new dwelling in Club Fed.
Vinicius is (to this point) the largest rip-off artist convicted in Massachusetts of stealing federal COVID welfare funds underneath the Payroll Protection Program (PPP).
PPP is the fraudulent rip-off welfare program that the feds arrange in 2020 after the Red Chinese unleased the Wuhan Red Death on the world.
If there was no federal authorities, there can be no PPP. And there can be no millionaire criminals like Vinicius Santana.
His single mom introduced Vinicius Santana to Revere from his Third World birthplace. He is a tenth-grade dropout and a jailbird. He was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force and imprisoned “after he was charged in an incident in which another military member was shot,” as his personal lawyer admits.
So it was solely pure that the feds would permit him to steal $2.5 million.
When all of the COVID “relief” packages have been arrange, it was like blowing a canine whistle for each con artist and flim-flam man – and never simply American residents both. (No point out is product of his citizenship standing in his sentencing memorandum.)
Do I must level out that, if the federal government shuts down, who will the following Vinicius Santana be capable of rob and steal from after he sneaks into the United States and doesn’t wish to work for a residing?
In 2017, Vinicius began one thing a portray firm referred to as “Complete Home Care LLC.” In 2020, he heard that Uncle Sam was making a gift of free cash, so he obtained in line, lickety-split.
In his first software totally free cash on April 10, 2020, Vinicius Santana falsely claimed he had 5 staff and a payroll of $10,000 a month. He wished the gringos to offer him $25,000.
He was turned down. Two weeks later, he filed two extra fraudulent PPP functions. Now he claimed he wanted $45,000 for his 5 fictitious staff, whose month-to-month pay had one way or the other elevated 80 p.c – to $18,000 a month.
Both new functions have been summarily rejected, so on that exact same day, Vinicius Santana determined to attempt to shoot the moon.
In his fourth software for welfare, he claimed that CHC had not 5, however 154 staff.
Its month-to-month payroll was not $18,000 a month – it was one million bucks.
And as a substitute of demanding a handout of $45,000, now Santana begged for $2.5 million – because the feds famous, “140 times larger than the requested loan in the three unsuccessful applications.”
Guess what – as soon as he upped the ante, Vinicius’ $2.5-million welfare fee was immediately accredited. It was wired to his account on the East Boston Savings Bank, which on the time had $60 in it.
Nobody seen nothing. Because… federal authorities.
Once he had stolen the $2.5 million, Vinicius Santana started spending it in simply the methods profession criminals at all times do.
He wired $825,332 and $185,900 to 2 completely different firms, each of which then cashed their windfalls on the similar check-cashing enterprise in Marlborough.
He then paid off automobile loans of $7,861.12 and $9,681.
Then he purchased himself a 2019 Toyota Highlander for $29,471.
Three weeks later, he purchased a $90,000 Audi in Burlington.
A few weeks later, he wired $900,000 from his checking account to a crypto-currency trade.
In December, he bought a home in Lowell for $407,587.
Bottom line: life is good for those who’re a Brazilian flim-flam man. But provided that the federal authorities is providing you with thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands of fraudulently-obtained {dollars}.
Which is why we should all be so grateful that the “shutdown” has been averted, at the least for a couple of weeks. Because God forbid that Third World profession criminals shouldn’t be capable of steal $2.5 million from law-abiding American residents, even for a quick second.
Sadly, although, Vinicius Santana has now been sentenced to 29 months in jail. Finally, the feds awakened and lugged the overseas freeloader.
In his sentencing memorandum, the greed-crazed Brazilian performed all the same old playing cards that Democrats at all times do when caught red-handed with their palms within the until. Stop me for those who’ve heard any of this earlier than.
Vinicius comes from “humble beginnings.” He was a “shy child.” His USAF dishonorable discharge was “an abrupt departure from the military.”
He entered a “dark period.” He “contracted COVID-19.” (Oh no!)
But he has “a caring and committed girlfriend, Zsofia Szepesi.” He “developed a knack” for being profitable. (No kidding!)
Sitting round dwelling after the Panic started, doing completely nothing like most newcomers to our land, Vinicius heard in regards to the PPP. He shortly found out how one can rip-off the americanos.
“This money,” Santana’s sentencing memorandum sadly notes, “quickly proved itself to be a curse rather than a blessing…”
To take a look at it one other method, stealing $2.5 million could be a blessing. Getting caught, nonetheless, is the curse.
“In the end, he failed to enrich himself at all.”
Depends on the way you take a look at it, I suppose. Vinicius continues to be going to be getting three hots and a cot for the following 29 months, compliments of Tio Sam. In different phrases, he’s nonetheless on the dole. Looks like not that a lot has actually modified for the Brazilian gunman.
“Mr. Santana gained little and lost much through his crimes. This is the quintessential case of money not buying happiness. Instead, the funds that Mr. Santana obtained only brought him distress, the near ruin of his company and a prison sentence. He did not obtain a life of luxury through his theft.”
Has it been that unhealthy for the senor? Even although he’s the largest PPP thief within the historical past of the Commonwealth, he’s nonetheless been permitted by the feds to go on two good holidays to Florida.
“(These) have been the happiest moments of Mr. Santana’s life since being arrested.”
This is why the federal authorities must not ever, ever shut down. Because in any other case, how would Brazilian-born thieves be capable of go to Florida on trip?
To replace the outdated bumper sticker, Keep working, thousands and thousands of overseas felons like Vinicius Santana are relying on you.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”