Former Georgia lawyer admits to COVID-19 fund scam, real estate scandal

Sanjay Patel, a former attorney who operated a Georgia-based real estate law firm, has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining nearly $300,000 in Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) during the COVID-19 pandemic and laundering more than $250,000 from unrelated investor fraud schemes through his attorney escrow account. 

Money laundering charges dropped against 3 ‘Cop City’ activists

Georgia prosecutors have dropped all 15 counts of money laundering that were levied against three Atlanta "Stop Cop City" organizers accused of misusing a bail fund to aid violent protests against the Atlanta Public Safety Training Facility.