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 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for submitting fraudulent online applications seeking pandemic-related unemployment benefits from eight states, while already collecting benefits in Rhode Island. Vallah Brown, 30, admitted to filing fraudulent online applications seeking Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funded unemployment…