Overview

• U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett ordered three years in prison, three years of supervised release with six months of home confinement, and $24,807,432 in restitution.
• Between April 2020 and January 2022, Harold Dotson filed or helped file more than $24 million in fraudulent PPP and EIDL applications using falsified business data.
• The scheme produced more than 115 bogus PPP loans totaling over $21 million plus more than $3.5 million in EIDL disbursements, according to prosecutors.
• Dotson took cuts ranging from 2% to 27% for over $828,000, which prosecutors say he largely spent at casinos in Maryland and Las Vegas.
• Co-conspirator Ahmed Sary of Brooklyn, Maryland, received a seven-year federal sentence in June for his role, court records show.