The man is guilty of being guilty with the Care Act, receives probation | crime

A Cypress man recently guilty to commit to organized criminal activities related to fraud with fraud for the cares act.

The Coronavirus AID, Auxiliary and Economic Security (Cares) Technology, which was adopted and signed in 2020, delivered one-time cash payments to the Americans in order to deal with the economic failures from the COVID 19 pandemy.

Linus Dewon Mouton, 42, is the sixth person who was guilty of known, who spans Harris and Fort Bend in the counties, according to the public prosecutor's office to fraudulent payments of the federal government of more than 300,000 US dollars.

On February 11, 2025, Mouton was sentenced to four years of probation and sentenced to pay 10,000 US dollars in reimbursement. So far, 144,361.80 US dollars have been recorded in reimbursement or is subject to the survey according to judicial order.

In June 2020, Mouton received a relief of 10,000 US dollars to Cares Act for small agricultural companies. He wrongly claimed to be the owner of “Linus Crops and Grains”, a company with 15 employees and an annual turnover of $ 74,000. There was no such business, and Mouton later admitted to paying someone to submit the application in his name.

An investigation by Warren Buckley from the US Ministry of Homeland, the general inspector's office, showed that more than 70 further applications were used by the same location and the same figures.

“Cares Act should help people and companies survive the economic downturn during pandemic, and it is reprehensible that they have taken money from the pockets of those who were injured,” said the district prosecutor of Fort Bend, Brian Middleton, in the press release. “I am proud of the work that we do with the law enforcement authorities in order to hold violations of accounting.”

The case was pursued on the 268th district court by the district prosecutor of the Fort Bend district. The department was founded in 2019 to examine and follow crimes that were committed by government officials and fraud against the government by a person.

The organized criminal activity in this case is a crime of the first degree that is punished at 5 to 99 years or in life in prison and up to $ 10,000.