He Spent $57,000 in Covid Relief on a Pokémon Card. Now the U.S. Owns It. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/us/covid-fraud-pokemon-card-charizard.html
Les voyous ne sont plus ce qu’il étaient.
The forfeitures have included Lamborghinis, gold bars and luxury goods from Dior.
But this may be the oddest seizure yet. Federal authorities say that they did not know at first what to make of a rare Pokémon trading card that they seized from a Georgia man who had used coronavirus relief money to buy the collectible.
The man, Vinath Oudomsine, 31, of Dublin, Ga., was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Friday, according to prosecutors, who said that he pleaded guilty last October to defrauding a loan program operated by the Small Business Administration.
In January 2021, Mr. Oudomsine spent $57,789 of loan proceeds from the program on the card, a first-edition Charizard released in 1999 that features a dragon-like creature from the Pokémon franchise, court documents show.