Michael Connelly’s Courtroom Crusaders

Michael Connelly has published a novel every year since his first Harry Bosch book, The Black Echo, won him an Edgar Award in 1993. Sometimes he has published two. Series are his thing. There are currently 25 books in the Bosch series, 3 featuring the reporter Jack McEvoy, 6 in the Renée Ballard series (counting the ones in which she teams up with Bosch), and now 8 in the Lincoln Lawyer series with the publication of The Proving Ground at the end of October.

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Democrat ex-lawmaker who heckled Trump convicted in COVID fraud scheme



A leftist former lawmaker was sentenced last month after being convicted of fraudulently obtaining a COVID-19 relief loan.

Ibraheem Samirah, a former Democratic Virginia state delegate, made headlines in 2019 for interrupting President Donald Trump’s Jamestown speech, holding up a sign that read, “Deport hate” and “reunite my family.”

'The defendant was stealing federal tax dollars at the same time he was deciding how to spend Virginia tax dollars.'

Samirah, 34, was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay $88,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, according to a Tuesday report from the Washington Post.

Prosecutors argued that the former lawmaker received an $83,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan in May 2020 for his dental practice in Fairfax County. He applied in August 2021 to have the loan forgiven, which would require the PPP funds to have been used for payroll, rent, or mortgage payments.

Samirah claimed that the loan would be used to pay four workers at his practice. However, court documents revealed that his business had no payroll employees. Additionally, it had no active financial account to disburse payroll funds until a few days before applying for the loan.

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Samirah allegedly fabricated payroll and tax records to secure the loan. The funds were distributed through bank accounts belonging to the supposed employees and then transferred into Samirah’s own account, according to prosecutors.

“The defendant was stealing federal tax dollars at the same time he was deciding how to spend Virginia tax dollars,” prosecutors wrote.

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Samirah told the Post that he had a “mistaken understanding of the PPP loan process,” which he claimed was “weaponized by Donald Trump’s Justice Department.”

He told the news outlet that he intended to use the cash to hire workers to market his business; however, on the loan application, he claimed that the funds would go to existing employees. He explained that he changed his mind about hiring new workers after realizing the pandemic would be prolonged. Instead, he spent the money on dental equipment and office furnishings, which were not authorized uses of the funds.

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