A high-paid Washington state tech executive was sentenced Tuesday to two years behind bars for illegally obtaining about $1.8 million in federal COVID-19 relief loans, federal authorities said.
Mukund Mohan was busted for the scheme in July 2020 as he was raking in an annual salary of $200,000 as chief of technology for Canadian e-commerce company BuildDirect, according to a Department of Justice press release.
Mohan, who had past gigs at Microsoft and Amazon, falsified employment documents in order to fraudulently receive the loans through the government’s Paycheck Protection Program for companies that he purportedly ran, authorities said.
Two years in minimum security federal prison is not nearly enough of a sentence. Throw in 9,000 hours of community service sweeping streets in downtown LA and we’ll talk.