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Date: 09-15-2021
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Case Number: 2:20-cr-20556-PDB-APP
Judge: Paul D. Borman
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Wayne County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Detroit, MI: Bank fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Michael Bishoff, at 60, of Macomb County, charged with bank fraud on Nov. 23, 2020, in the Eastern District of Michigan. According to court documents, Bischoff, who owned multiple pizza restaurants in Macomb County, admitted to defrauding several financial institutions by submitting at least nine falsified PPP loan applications that included false representations about payroll, business expenses, and the number of employees working at his restaurants. To help secure the PPP loans, Bischoff also submitted multiple fabricated tax documents and fraudulently used another person’s personal identifying information. In total, Bischoff fraudulently sought approximately $931,000 in COVID-19 relief funds and received approximately $593,590. In addition to his prison sentence, Bischoff was ordered to serve three years of supervised release, and to pay $593,590 in restitution and a $5,000 fine.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Acting U.S. Attorney Saima Shafiq Mohsin of the Eastern District of Michigan; Special Agent in Charge Kathy A. Enstrom of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General (FDIC-OIG); Special Agent in Charge Sharon Johnson of the SBA’s Office of Inspector General (SBA-OIG) Central Region; and Special Agent in Charge Douglas Zloto of the U.S. Secret Service’s Detroit Field Office made the announcement.
The FDIC-OIG, the SBA-OIG, and the Secret Service investigated the case.
Trial Attorney Philip B. Trout of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section; Trial Attorney Chad M. Davis of Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section; and Assistant U.S. Attorney John K. Neal of the Eastern District of Michigan prosecuted the case.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
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