Feds Say Florida Woman Funded Luxurious Lifestyle With Stolen COVID Funds

BOSTON — A Florida woman who authorities say chartered a private jet to fly across the country with a portion of more than $1 million in federal coronavirus relief funds she fraudulently obtained using stolen identities pleaded guilty on Monday , federal prosecutors said.

Danielle Miller, 32, of Miami, pleaded guilty in US District Court to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office in Boston.

Miller used the identities of more than 10 people and used fake company names to apply for and receive more than $1 million in Economic Injury Loan and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and related unemployment benefits since July, prosecutors say. 2020 to May 2021.

Miller had a fake driver’s license in the names of the victims, but with her photo. In one case, she accessed the victim’s Massachusetts Vehicle Registry online records and used the personal information to open a bank account in the man’s name, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said that in August 2020, Miller used a fake driver’s license to arrange a charter flight on a private Gulfstream jet from Florida to California, where she was staying at a luxury hotel under the victim’s same name.

In another case, prosecutors said she used someone’s identity to rent a luxury apartment in Florida.

Miller boasted about her extravagant lifestyle on her Instagram account, where she had over 34,000 followers. victims.

Miller’s verdict is due on July 27. She was arrested in May 2021.

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