PROVIDENCE RESIDENT Vallah Brown pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud for submitting fraudulent online applications seeking pandemic-related unemployment benefits from eight states. / COURTESY U.S. DISTRICT COURT
PROVIDENCE – A city man on Friday pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud and assault of a federal officer after police say he defrauded businesses of $832,000 by falsely obtaining credit from food distributors to purchase lobster, wild boar and other luxury foods. Paul Diogenes, also known as Paul Dejullio, 49, admitted in…