It’s almost time to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, but one very important person on her guest list still hasn’t RSVP’d!
11.03.2022 - 04:11 / deadline.com
A federal guilty plea agreement was entered today by William Sadleir, the former chief executive of Aviron Pictures, who admitted that he applied for and received $1.7 million in loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). That while the entire Aviron operation was being shuttered as a result of his prior embezzlement.
The plea in United States District Court saw Sadleir, 67, of Beverly Hills, agree to plead guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of money laundering. Sadleir is scheduled to formally enter the guilty pleas on March 16.
Sadlier had six credits as an executive producer between 2017 and 2019. His most notable was the 2019 Serenity, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Diane Lane, and the 2018 comedy Destination Wedding, starring Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and DJ Dallenbach.
The US attorney’s office said Sadleir filed bank loan applications that fraudulently sought more than $1.7 million dollars in forgivable PPP loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
According to court documents, Sadleir obtained the loans for three Aviron entities by falsely representing that the funds would be used to support payroll expenses for 33 employees at each company, when, in fact, the entities were no longer operational.
Within days of the loans being funded on May 1, 2020, Sandleir transferred nearly $1 million to his personal checking account.
Sadleir “expended a substantial amount of the fraudulent loan proceeds on utility bills, mortgage expenses, and his personal attorney, among other things,” he admitted in his plea agreement. Sandleir “did not use any of the fraudulent loan proceeds to pay employees of the
It’s almost time to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, but one very important person on her guest list still hasn’t RSVP’d!
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Prince William expressed “profound sorrow” for the role Britain played in the horrific slave trade.
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