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Owner of Mexican restaurants in Pace, Gulf Breeze charged with fraud by feds
The owner of several Mexican restaurants in Northwest Florida and Alabama has been ar-rested on a slew of charges related to the mishandling of COVID-19 era federal loans.
Cesar Campos-Reyes, 52, is charged with four counts of bank fraud, four counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama, the charges stem from an alleged scheme involving federal program fraud.
The owner of El Patron Mexican Grill in Pace and Mariachi’s in Gulf Breeze was arrested for wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering following a raid on several Mexican restaurants across Alabama, where he lives. Photo courtesy of FBI’s Mobile office.
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