A Social Security Administration employee has been convicted of bank fraud.
A jury found Darryl Williams, 52, of Tallahassee, Florida, guilty of one count of bank fraud and nine counts of making false statements to a federally insured financial institution for the purpose of obtaining loans and credit, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Authorities did not identify Williams’s job in the SSA. However, the Justice Department did state that between “approximately November 2010 to October 2016, Williams submitted a series of applications for loans and credit to Envision Credit Union (‘Envision‘), a financial institution with branches in Tallahassee, in which he repeatedly lied about his employment with the federal government, his pay grade, his salary and his job title.”
Williams claimed to be earning more than $115,000 per year when he actually made less than $60,000. Nor was he actually a federal employee at the time he submitted several of the applications. In addition, “Williams submitted false bank statements and earnings and leave statements to Envision in support of some of his applications. The trial evidence demonstrated that Williams applied for more than $140,000 worth of loans between late 2010 and late 2016.”
The conviction was announced by DOJ, FBI, the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General, and the SSA’s Office of Inspector General.
