Exec sentenced in PPP loan scam, must forfeit boat and $3.3M

FORT MYERS — Southwest Florida roofing company executive Casey David Crowther has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison after being convicted in a PPP loan fraud case where he bought a $700,000 boat, among other expenditures, with the ill-gotten gains.    

On March 26 a federal jury convicted Crowther, 35, of Fort Myers, on bank fraud, making a false statement to a lending institution and two counts of money laundering. Senior U.S. District Judge John Steele handed down the sentence July 1. The court, according to a statement, also ordered Crowther to forfeit $2,739,081.21; $630,482.37; and a 40’ catamaran boat, which were the proceeds of the PPP fraud and the mortgage fraud offenses. The boat was a 2020 Invincible Catamaran boat purchased from Sara Bay Marina in Sarasota.