Right-wing extremists, including many who stormed the Capitol, used millions of dollars of Pandemic

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Chad Loder
@chadloder
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Mar 12, 2021
Right-wing extremists, including many who stormed the Capitol, used millions of dollars of Pandemic Protection loans to fund extremist activities.

1. James Patrick Riley: $317,300.00
Riley attended the Capitol insurrection on Jan 6th and holds right-wing events at Rileys Farm.
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Chad Loder
@chadloder
2. The Ly family, owners of Tank Noodle restaurant in uptown Chicago, came under fire after images of them surfaced attending Trump’s January 6th rally in DC.

They not only defrauded their employees out of $700,000 in wages, they also received a PPP loan of $163,557.00.
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Joe Ward
@JayDubWard
Tank Noodle, whose owners came under fire for attending the Jan. 6 Trump rally, has been ordered to pay $700,000 in back wages to 60 employees.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/03/03/uptowns-tank-noodle-forced-to-pay-staff-700k-after-not-paying-workers-other-labor-violations-feds-say/

3. Cordie Williams of Carlsbad, CA, aka “The Megaphone Marine”, attended the Capitol insurrection on January 6th.

Williams, who founded an org called 1776 Forever Free, frequently travels to right-wing events. His chiropractic business has received $167,775.00 in pandemic loans.
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Chad Loder
@chadloder
4. Gina Bisgnano, the Beverly Hills salon owner who was arrested by the FBI for rioting in the US Capitol, received pandemic relief loans totaling $15,600.00.

5. Simone Gold, the Los Angeles-based M.D. and pusher of unproven COVID remedies, was arrested by the FBI for breaching the Capitol on January 6th.

Dr. Simone Gold received $21,833.00 in pandemic relief loans.
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Chad Loder
@chadloder
6. Kristopher Dreww, a far-right extremist based in Huntington Beach, CA who goes by “The Adorable Deplorable”, had his home raided by the FBI after admitting he stormed the Capitol.

Dreww received $1,000.00 in pandemic relief loans.

7. Tom Ramsey, a homebuilder from Louisville, CO, was exposed by @FrontRangeAFA after he was filmed rioting at the Capitol on Jan 6th.

Ramsey received pandemic relief loans of $23,770.00.
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Front Range Antifascists
@FrontRangeAFA
Welcome, fellow supersoldiers!✨We at Front Range Antifa are proud to present...*drum roll*...Tom Ramsey, a January 6th D.C. putsch attendee from Louisville, CO.

🚨ACTION ITEMS BELOW!🚨

https://frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/post/2021/02/28/tom-ramsey-westmark-design-construction/…
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Chad Loder
@chadloder
8. Nick Yaya is a Los Angeles-based QAnon extremist and anti-vaxxer who staged a shutdown of the nation’s largest vaccine site on January 30th at Dodger Stadium.

Yaya wears a white lab coat at anti-vax protests to pretend he’s a doctor. He received $1,000.00 in pandemic relief.

9. Update from @bobbyduncannot:
James Riley, the right-wing extremist, Capitol insurrectionist, and owner of Rileys Farms, actually received over $830,000.00 in pandemic relief.
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Bobby Duncan’s Chin
@bobbyduncannot
Replying to @bobbyduncannot
2/ Jim Riley, owner of Riley’s Farm, accepted the following loans in 2020...

April 10 - $10k (EIDL)
April 18 - $462,500 (EIDL)
June 17 - $43k (EIDL)
June 25 - $317,300 (PPP)

More on PPP and EIDL loans coming up...
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Chad Loder
@chadloder
10. Jim Worthington, Trump donor, founder of "People 4 Trump" PAC, and owner of the Newtown & Horsham Athletic Clubs, chartered several busses bringing dozens of Trump supporters from Bucks County, PA to the Jan 6th DC protest.

Worthington received $182,600.00 in pandemic relief


Chad Loder
@chadloder
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Mar 13, 2021
Replying to @chadloder
11. Russ Taylor, a right-wing extremist and Trump supporter from Ladera Ranch, CA whose home was raided by the FBI after he stormed the Capitol, received pandemic relief for his company Fusion Of Ideas totaling $656,407.00.
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Chad Loder
@chadloder
12. Ashli Babbitt, a San Diego veteran who was shot and killed breaking into a guarded room in the Capitol, owned a pool supply company with her husband.

They received pandemic relief loans of $68,265.00.

13. Jenny Cudd, a Texas flower shop owner, was arrested by the FBI after she admitted to breaking down Nancy Pelosi's door while storming the Capitol.

She famously asked the court to allow her to travel to Mexico pending her trial.

Cudd received $200,000.00 in pandemic relief.
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Chad Loder
@chadloder
14. Bradley Ruskelas, CEO of Customer Asset Consulting Group (DBA Cogensia), a data analytics firm in Schaumburg, IL, was arrested at the Capitol and charged with unlawful entry.

Ruskelas's company received $586,237.00 in pandemic relief. (h/t @ericlevai) https://dailydot.com/debug/capitol-rioters-ppp-loans/…
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Mar 12, 2021
Right-wing extremists, including many who stormed the Capitol, used millions of dollars of Pandemic Protection loans to fund extremist activities.

1. James Patrick Riley: $317,300.00
Riley attended the Capitol insurrection on Jan 6th and holds right-wing events at Rileys Farm.
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Bobby Duncan’s Chin
@bobbyduncannot
Riley actually collected $830k+ in Covid loans. For anyone wanting to know more about James Patrick Riley and Riley’s Farm, read this...

Bobby Duncan’s Chin
@bobbyduncannot
1/ I feel there’s zero shame in accepting a PPP or EIDL loan as a result of the fallout from COVID that began March 2020. I do, however, have a MASSIVE problem that a recipient of said loans went on to join people at the US Capitol on January 6. I’m speaking about Riley’s Farm.🧵

[Initech]

1. Lock all of them up!

[soothsayer]

3. Except ashli

[rockfordfile]

29. I agree. Every single one of them are un-American

[Walleye]

2. Gonna have a hard time paying back those loans from prison

[dawg]

4. Won't have to.

Almost all of them will be fully forgiven.

[Walleye]

5. Well that sucks

[dawg]

8. Indeed it does.

The initial PPP loan program was poorly designed and quickly turned into a free money bonanza for businesses.

(Full disclosure: including my business.)

[Claire Oh Nette]

28. YOu mean the GOP plan was a free for all?

Color me shocked.

Add fraud charges to these people's crimes. Some of these people based on analyses of the insurrectionists caught thus far have long histories of bankruptcy and financial trouble at higher than average rates.

Grifters gotta grift.

Take everything they have.

[soothsayer]

9. Well... not if they didn't use them for payroll

They’ll have to repay

[KS Toronado]

16. Exactly how I've always felt

Payroll is the first P in PPP, if the money didn't go into paychecks it should come back to the U S Treasury
with interest for being dishonest.

[soothsayer]

19. I think the interest is super low, but yes, you're supposed to prove how you spent it

I never took any even though sole proprietors were allowed to use it to pay themselves. I figured I’d somehow be the one person it didn’t count for (tiny amount too)

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[meow2u3]

7. K&R with disgust

[struggle4progress]

10. "I used the money Donnie sent to visit DC and smash windows!"

[tanyev]

11. So freaking called it!

Feb. 2 thread in which I wondered if Jenny Cudd's 'employee retreat' on the Mexican Riviera was being paid for with PPP money.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215041900#post19

[soothsayer]

12. You were right on

[malaise]

13. Truth will out

The FBI will find the links between so called Pandemic Relief and funding the attempted coup

[sagetea]

14. So shameful

and disgusting! We have a trucking business that hauls Oxygen and Helium to yards where local drivers pick up to deliver to hospitals. We never requested PPP loans, mainly because we didn't trust the 'former guy' and we were and are (sadly) doing pretty well. In late 2020, trailers were disappearing around the country, these trailers are very expensive to replace. Which put us out of work for a month, but more than that, hurt hospitals who NEEDED the oxygen and Helium! My god these people. Shame on them.

sage

[hibbing]

15. Gina, Gina, Gina.....get some help n/t

[NewHendoLib]

17. fucking asshole criminals one and all. lock em all up forever.

[Hekate]

18. KnR

[gldstwmn]

20. Someone might want to alert Gina

To the benefits of waterproof mascara.
They should be made to pay back every penny.

[soothsayer]

22. Absolutely! Supposed to be used to keep employees on payroll

[Ford_Prefect]

21. ...And the grift goes on! And the grift goes on!...

[Quemado]

23. Lauren Mayer "The Grift Goes On", a parody of "The Beat Goes On"

[AllaN01Bear]

24. I WANT THEM ALL, I REPEAT ALL OF THEM TO PAY EVRY RED CENT.

we the rest of us got how much.? how many of these were trump butt buddies . and this is where our monies goto. to help make them even richer whilst we loose our jobs .gah.

[CaptainTruth]

25. They take government money, then try to overthrow the government.

Can we revoke their citizenship & deport them, please???

[MarcA]

26. Privileged white middle class grifters

some apparently with mental health issues too.

[radius777]

27. Exactly. Also why we should not have allowed Manchin

to squeeze off deserving middle class folks from the stimulus check, child tax credit and the enhanced unemployment. He forced us to lower the income brackets, all of which just hurts our base which is heavily urban and suburban where salaries can be higher but cost of living is high as well.

As this OP details, the real 'waste' was in the PPP program which turned out to be a slush fund for alot of unscrupulous businesses ('small' or otherwise). Most of those people are Republicans and will never vote Dem.