Pinellas man convicted for using dead business partner’s identity for COVID fraud

By Anastasia Dawson
| 10:25 a.m. January 20, 2026

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

A federal jury has convicted a Pinellas County man on multiple charges after stealing more than $955,000 in COVID relief funds by using his dead business partner’s identity, federal prosecutors say in a release.

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