A Boston man has been indicted on charges related to stealing over $380,000 in business checks and federal tax returns and fraudulently obtaining $50,000 in pandemic relief loans, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

A federal grand jury has charged 33-year-old Lonnie Smith-Matthews with two counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering and one count of theft of government funds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release . He was previously arrested and charged by criminal complaint in June as part of a federal crackdown on stolen U.S. Treasury checks .

In 2021, Smith-Matthews fraudulently obtained two federal pandemic relief loans by falsely claiming a business income of $128,000, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. In actuality, he made less t

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