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The owner of a telecommunications company in Florida was sentenced to five years in prison after he was guilty of stealing the federal program as soon as they are not called off-offer “Obama telephone” that offers telephone services to customers with a low income.
Q Link Wireless LLC and its 51-year-old CEO ISSA Asad both guilty for conspiracy last year to commit wire fraud and to steal government money from the Lifeline program, the Ministry of Justice announced. The program, started in 1985 and extensively under Obama, offers subsidized mobile services on the poor. It was heavily criticized during the 2012 elections, when a viral video arose with a woman in Cleveland who claimed that she and all her friends received ‘Obama telephones’. Some telecommunication companies with lifeline contracts embraced the termAlthough the government did not do that.
Asad was sentenced to five years in prison and both he and the company were instructed to pay financial fines and refund for a total of more than $ 128 million, according to the agency.
Asad separately argued guilty of money laundering of a government loan program intended to support struggling companies during the COVID-19 Pandemie.
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Q Link Wireless LLC CEO ISSA Asad and his company committed guilty last year to work together to cheat on the US government program. (Photo -Ilustration by Pavlo Gonchar/Sopa images/Lighttrocket via getty images/getty images)
According to the pleadings, ASAD and Q Link agreed to pay nearly $ 110 million in refunds to the Federal Communications Commission. Asad also paid a criminal fine of almost $ 17.5 million for income received from the telephones of Q Link.
This was one of the greatest financial fines in the history of the FCC, according to the Doj.
Asad also paid more than $ 1.7 million in refund to the Small Business Administration for money laundering that received his company from the PayCheck Protection Program (PPP) during the Pandemie.
The DOJ said he admitted that he had used PPP money for the construction of his house, a Land Rover payment, his personal American Express card, real estate tax, jewelry and donations at a university.
This was one of the greatest financial fines in the history of the FCC. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty images)
Asad and Q Link have admitted to a regulation in court to cheat the Lifeline program of the FCC.
The scheme in which ASAD was involved took place between 2012 and 2021 when Asad and Q Link provided false information about their Lifeline customers and repeated false claims for government allowance. They also acquainted that they retained lifeline funds that they were not entitled to receive and mislead the FCC about compliance with the company of program rules.
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Issa Asad and Q Link admitted that they deliberately consumed to cheat the FCC program between 2012 and 2021. (Reuters / Andrew Kelly / Reuters -photos)
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Asad has a criminal history and was accused of murder in 2014 in connection with driving over a land in his company after a dispute about paying $ 65 for lawn services, according to the Miami Herald.
Later he did not argue for a crime removable negligence and was beaten with a year of probation and ordered a fine of $ 225.
