Local and federal authorities swooped in on 14 different locations in Alabama last Tuesday.
They were looking for Cesar Campos-Reyes, 52, of Lee County, related to four counts of bank fraud, four counts of wire fraud and money laundering related to four PPP loans with an approximate value of $225,000 following a multi-year long investigation. It follows an April federal indictment of Campos-Reyes.
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