Fort Myers couple arrested for $2 million COVID fraud


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 12:45 p.m. June 16, 2023
  • | Updated 4:55 p.m. June 16, 2023
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Roger B. Handberg, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, has focused on PPP loan fraud cases.
Roger B. Handberg, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, has focused on PPP loan fraud cases.
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A Fort Myers couple has been arrested and charged with stealing more than $2 million in COVID relief funds.

Timothy Craig Jolloff, 46, and Lisa Ann Jolloff, 56, were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and one count of illegal monetary transactions. Timothy Jolloff was also charged with one count of wire fraud.

The couple turned themselves in Friday morning and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kyle Dudek at 2 p.m. The judge released them they each on $50,000 unsecured bonds, restricted their travels to South, Southwest and Central Florida as well as the state of Indiana. Both were ordered to forfeit their passports.

 

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