Appalling text Phoenix news anchor sent husband that ended with their lives in ruins

An eye -catching old new Achona, who was convicted of a billion dollar Fintech scheme, sent an ugly text to his husband, a joke to deceit his taxpayers from government funds.

A terrible message to Stephanie Hockridge-Reis’s husband Nathan Reis, Reis, played his role in Covid-19 financing fraud.

The couple was accused of making false applications for the Payment Protection Program (PPP) loans during the height of the pandema.

‘This is trying to apply for free money – when we do not fully qualify. LOL, ’47, sent a message to Reis, according to the federal indictment Arizona Republic.

42-year-old Hockridge-Reis claimed that he was not guilty, but a federal jury condemned him from a conspiracy to make a wire fraud in June this year. He was acquitted of four points of wire fraud.

Prosecutors claim that the couple coaches to borrowers to make fraudulent PPP loan applications and that they receive recoil after the funds have been provided.

The former KNXV-TV anchor claimed that there was a ‘sincere effort to support small businesses’ in a chaotic government problem in the age of ‘unprecedented needs’.

Stephanie Hockridge-Reis and her husband Nathan Reis (in the picture) found guilty in a billion dollar fintech program

According to the court records, Reis was planned to be tried this month, but on Monday, he made a defense agreement. He will be sentenced in November.

A federal jury found Hockridge-Reis guilty of the conspiracy after the end of the hearing in June.

The case focused on Blueacorn, a fintech company, which he founded in April 2020 only weeks after Hockridge-Reis left the anchor business.

Blueacorn claimed that small businesses helped to navigate the PPP credit process, a life line created by the Congress to run workers during the Covid crisis.

In fact, the inspectors say the company is a fraud factory.

According to a congress sub -committee, Blueacorn has committed more than $ 12.5 billion and has been in pocket for the ownership group up to $ 300 million, while almost nothing to prevent fraud prevention.

While many small businesses were struggling to survive during their pandemia, the Reis family was living great, shooting video with cash bricks, showing rolex watches and vacationing on the balconies of tropical places.

The court showed photos of the heaps of the $ 100 bills in a bathtub and photos of the videos taken in a luxurious coastal apartment in Porto Rico, where the couple moved to prevent US capital gain tax.

Federal prosecutors say that he operates a Covid Nakit-Grab Empire by taking hundreds of millions of dollars of PPP loans with Nathan Reis, the founder of Hockridge-Reis, Fintech.

The couple is seen in June while leaving the court during the hearing of Hockridge-Reis.

The jury was also seen as a list of ‘VIPP’s that allowed staff to skip security controls of high -dollar customers who encourage their personnel to’ push ‘without paying attention to red flags.

“ Who cares, ” he said. ‘We are not the first bank to reject borrowers who deserve to be financed… They can go anywhere else.’

Another text specified by prosecutors described it as ‘MVP’ of the operation.

Hockridge-Reis, a journalist of Emmy, who once seized the magazine as ‘the favorite harbinger of Arizona’, will appear in court in court on October 10th. He is sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for conspiracy conviction.

According to the court files, the couple presented fraudulent PPP applications for them, and a Reis claimed that both African American and military veterans – both lies. They bought at least $ 300,000 in personal PPP funds.

They also claimed that illegal ‘success fees’ to borrowers violated SBA rules and even collected percentages of financed loans by making back recoil agreements with banks.

Blueacorn’s practices were so brazen that the Congress launched an official investigation and the company’s taxpayer’s transaction fees financed by the taxpayer, while collecting more than $ 1 billion, he spent only 8.6 million dollars on preventing fraud, and spent less than 1 percent of his purchase.

Emmy candidate journalist, who once considered the magazine as ‘Favorite harbinger of Arizona’, left anchor in KNXV-TV in the first months of Pandemi in 2020

He spent seven years as a respected anchor for the Phoenix -based ABC member and previously worked at the CBS News Radio in London. Career praise include an Emmy nomination and features in local lifestyle publications

A congress report summarized the company’s internal directive: speed on accuracy.

Some employees with zero financial training reported that each of them committed hundreds of loans under 30 seconds.

A federal official close to the investigation, `This was not about helping small businesses, ” he said. ‘This was about to siphon a national crisis for personal earnings.’

During the hearing, the federal lawyers also brought an indictment that claimed that the couple claimed that they produced payroll records, tax documents and bank declarations.

In an application, Hockridge-Reis and Reis claimed that they had an Amazon work that produces six figures.

Another loan was given to a company they claim to have multiple employees.

It was claimed that the couple re -directed the money through a chain of bank accounts using inter -state wires to hide their traces.

The Federal Inspectors say that Reis plays a central role in controlling Blueacorn’s daily operations and financial distribution, and profit helps to develop priority to the toxic culture that gives priority.

Reis was found guilty of a conspiracy to make a wire fraud on Monday.

It is scheduled to be sentenced on November 21st and also faces a maximum of 20 years of imprisonment.

During the PANDEM, Hockridge-Reis and her husband were living great, shooting videos with cash bricks, showing Rolex watches and vacationing on the balconies of tropical locals.

The couple’s case was also attached to Eric and Anthony Karnzis, two men who were guilty of PPP fraud in a case of a relevant lawsuit.

Eric Karnzis agreed to pay compensation of $ 25 million to 65 million; Anthony agreed to repay between $ 3.5 million to 9.5 million dollars.

The convictions underlined that federal guards call it the largest wave of fraud in the US history – the emergency was fueled by Covid aid programs and exploited by thousands of bad actors.

The salary protection program to protect the workers has become a cash cow for predators.