Ralph Christopher Cirino was indicted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on six counts of mail fraud, four counts of misrepresentation of a social security number, four counts of wire fraud, two counts of making false statements in mortgage loan applications and one count of unlawful possession of authentication feature.
According to the indictment, Cirino falsely reported to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor that two corporations, Fast Care Home Care P.C. and Juris Clarity were legitimate corporations with multiple employees earning wages in 2015 and 2016. In fact, these companies did not conduct any business, have employees or pay wages and the employees were fictitious. Cirino sought to obtain unemployment benefits by purporting to be several of the fictitious employees and by submitted unemployment claims on behalf of those fictitious employees and on his own behalf. On of the fictitious employee names identified in the indictment is Benjamin Hunt.
The indictment alleges that Cirino made false statements to American Internet Mortgage, Inc. and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation for the purpose of influencing the actions of the mortgage companies on loans. He caused loan applications containing knowing false statements to be submitted including an application in December 2016 to AIM falsely stating the applicant’s name was Benjamin Hunt, he was employed by Fast Care and earned a weekly salary of $1,960 and an application in March 2017 to Fairway falsely stating the applicant’s name was Benjamin Hunt, he was employed by Fastcare and earned a monthly salary of $9,880.
The indictment also seeks forfeiture of $87,259.
