Federal employee who worked in Columbia indicted for PPP fraud

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A North Carolina woman was indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on Thursday for fraudulently obtaining $20,000 from a Paycheck Protection Program loan in 2021, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

Lakeysha Day, 43, was charged with one count of wire fraud. She was an employee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and worked at a medical center in Columbia, the release says.

The release says she applied for a PPP loan for a business on March 20, 2021. She claimed she owned a business that had an average monthly payroll of $8,000, the release says.

Day also allegedly submitted documents claiming the business made $114,210 in sales, had $14,685 in business expenses and a profit of $99,525, the release says. Her tax return in 2019 did not report the income or expenses that were claimed in the loan application, the release says.