BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – A judge sentenced a Vermont woman to five months in prison for committing pandemic fraud.
46-year-old Jennifer Stocker of New Haven, Vermont received her sentence Friday for making false statements to a credit union on an application for a PPP loan and for violating probation conditions for a 2018 fraud conviction.
The state’s attorney office says stocker received five years probation in 2018 for making false statements for benefits. Then in 2020, Stocker claimed on a loan application for her business that she had not been convicted of a felony and was not on probation. She submitted another loan application in 2021, and lied again.
Both loans were approved and stocker received $86,000, which then got approved for loan forgiveness.
Stocker will serve five months for the pandemic fraud and violating conditions of probation. She will then have a three-year supervised release.