A senior executive at NASA who received $285,000 in COVID-19 relief to fund lavish spending was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in prison.
Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesAndrew Tezna used the more than $285,000 he received on a French bulldog and a Disney membership.See more stories on Insider's business pagesaid Andrew Tezna, 36, of Leesburg, Virginia, applied for more than $350,000 in COVID-19 relief from the Paycheck Protection Program and Virginia unemployment.
When Tezna pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud in April, Raj Parekh, acting US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said the NASA executive used the government's COVID-19 relief programs asThe government said Tezna submitted three loan PPP applications to banks, totalling $272,284. He submitted another two applications to the Small Business Administration for $69,500. And he applied for $15,950 in COVID-related unemployment in Virginia.
Tenza used the name Andalasia Designs for his PPP applications, according to court documents. He said the company had three employees, with an average monthly payroll of $34,700, according to prosecutors. The company did not have a monthly payroll, they said.
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