- June 15, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Police bodycam video exclusively obtained by NBC 6 shows officers catching up to a man detectives say took advantage of the coronavirus pandemic and stole thousands of dollars from taxpayers in a clever scheme.
Police said Xavier Taylor, 32, stole the information of a South Florida small business owner and was able to convince the government to send him more than $80,000 in COVID-19 assistance loans.
“They pretend to own a company. They pretend to have employees. They provide tax returns with false information and unfortunately, you have unscrupulous individuals who use the weakness in the system,” said Lauderhill Police Det. Richard Clarke.
Clarke said Taylor is just one person he’s tracking down who took advantage of the pandemic aid loans.
”There’s a saying that fraud is the drug of today,” Clarke said.
Lauderhill Police charged with Taylor impersonating a legitimate business, grand theft, and money laundering for…
