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Fugitive Accused of PPP Loan Fraud Was Nabbed at Disney World

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0:00 friendly another bison guy I was telling him like I want to get a a PS uh PS4 is just like look what I saw okay got me and I'm like how does that work it's easy they give you anything money and they're like here you go you have like three thousand dollars in credit I'm like you got your PSO and I got my PS I got a couple ps1s that's how they ████ you though [Music] there's this guy who is considered a New York City fugitive oh no he's successfully dodged the law for the past the past year and uh he was one of those guys who did PPP loan fraud oh yeah a lot of people still they're still cracking down on

0:50 these mothers we're gonna get their money back right you know they lost like a billion in like um those covid checks that they were giving out those stimulus monies yeah they are whoever they is that's not PPP though PVP is different that's a that's a stimulus oh dude that's four beating so officials say that this dude named quashawn Burton croissant that's a dope name oh what you do croissant officials say that Burton or croissants in Brooklyn last year after fraudulently obtaining over 150 000 in forgivable PPP loans from it's forgivable man and allegedly use multiple identities to get cash out of an ATM at a New York

1:41 City Post Office Wow first of all I think he gave up the wrong name and ████ like what's your name oh ████ my name uh croissant croissant what uh Berglund whatever it is he was at a donut shop [Laughter] so he's been dodged in New York right he he ran from Brooklyn um and he ends up making his way down to Florida and goes to Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom park it's I wonder what that's like Animal Kingdom park in October when Federal

2:32 Postal Inspector Jeff Andre spots him because he recognizes while he was on the teacup ride Animal Kingdom oh Animal Kingdom that's Magic Kingdom they recognize him because of an H tattoo that he has on his neck he looks like he's crying bro you recognize him who uh this guy who basically works for the ████ Bureau or whatever oh for the bureau Federal oh he saw it was an h and goes that's the guy you know how many black does I know with h on their ████ neck yeah I would have never been like wait a minute croissant I don't know dude so uh this dude Jeff identified Burton nah man I'm Bagel like damn it I Mr Bagel no Bagel Man Chris I'm my cousin sorry it's okay

3:22 we got sprinkles jelly filled what did you uh yeah you know what now you're making fun of me and I'm not and I don't like it okay so this guy gets uh you know id'd by his distinctive H tattoo right uh he gets reported to the cops who show up to the Animal Kingdom an hour later and they reportedly found him with two family members while they were sitting at a bus stop in the park he wouldn't produce any ID and he resisted arrest so they took him down to the ground and later I did him via his fingerprints to find out that this was the guy that's how you do it that's basically how you do it you gotta know that some guy named croissants going around you got to memorize their tattoos because there's a lot of people that have H's on their necks was he like hold this and then he's like I got to Pringle prince ████ yeah oh I like not sure how tall

4:12 I like your imagination but no hold this in your hand right now fifth grade imagination but no thanks that's not how it works no that's yeah wrote it right here they said hold this but it feels like such a freaking like catch me if I can scene you know what I mean this guy just like was you know got fired probably like you're out of this case Johnson is like damn it and he ████ gives up everything and his wife go on a trip all right you've done too much let's go to an animal kingdom fine you're right let's go and then it's working trying to take his mind off of work and he's looking at you right it's like what the what and she's like give it up you're not gonna do this on our vacation ████ ignoring everybody pushing kids

5:03 ████ you know but that's it man yeah because he said he said yours is a fifth grade imagination well you know not him pushing kids out the way together sixth grade mines was a sixth grade yeah you take it easy dude I do a little ████ yours was an Adam Sandler movie yeah dude I get a little act out an area a little bit of slow-mo he's pushing the kid out of the way grabbing his face and ████ like that I don't need drugs dude I'm just I'm a drug on my own but yeah that's how I pictured it what do you think uh croissant's family is really like go ahead and explain his family tree his family's tree what was yeah who was he there what was his upbringing that led him to do PPP loan forgiveness uh fraud you know I think uh his family was probably like already Shifty you know what I mean his dad just was a ████ dad who just ████ dads dude selling anything yeah you know just like Hustler I know so he learned how to

5:53 just ████ cheat the system be like I know how to ████ move and ████ in one day he's like you know what he was gonna go pro buddy hurt his body you know yeah yeah he was one of those guys he's well I could have gone bro but yeah I got shot you know they always got shot you know whenever you got shot changes everything your dream just you know you know they get you're done run like I used to right I was ████ gonna I would go Harvard I got shot you know I was gonna go he's gonna go to Harvard dude yeah a little guy got shot I mean yeah yeah yeah by the way honestly like how smart of a guy to do that though with the PVP loans is that to me I feel like that's difficult like I don't know I could I can I try to apply for that ████ it's a double that show to me it's like it's smart for you to do that and then it's like you really come to Florida like that was your runaway it's like they won't extradite at Animal Kingdom you know what I mean well I mean

6:43 he's not he's not brilliant in as as far as like not to get caught but he's brilliant to like do the so many people were you hearing about so many people they were like I could have done it creating you know llc's out of ████ thin air saying that their business was going under because of like XYZ metrics so they got money that's what I'm saying I grew up in the whole good I never met a black dude that was like yo I'm gonna ████ write a paragraph and they used to be like nah ████ that you know I mean I would never think that he would ████ like maybe he would create easier it was really easy he's a Brooklyn criminal not an Arizona criminal you know what I mean they're different they're smarter New York they got the New York Street Smart you know plus how many times like somebody like like oh ████ dude I just did this I made up this fake ass business and I got this money it's like word like how do I do that yeah you know what I mean it's like dude you just got to say this because there was a bunch of

7:33 people that got caught quick but you already know there's a bunch of people that haven't even ████ been caught at all you know what a dumb criminal I am because I I I failed at being a criminal because I did it legally so um my buddy was like yo check this out man I bought a half a pound of weed but from the government's money and like no ████ how did you get it he goes there's a thing called financial aid just sign up for school sign up for school and you buy and you and you get like a couple Grand you can buy weed with it you can sell the weed and I'm like no ████ and he goes yeah and you don't even got to pay this money back and I'm like so what I got to do he goes you just gotta go to school ignore some phone calls and you just gotta get like straight A's and ████ and I'm like straight Haze that's it and I'm like all right didn't know that I just needed a c c average right because he told me straight A so I just believe him so now we're both being students going to

8:24 college getting financial aid selling weed on the side and then this guy's like your life Mentor basically he helped me turn my life around after you build a business dude and getting financial aid to support myself and then eventually what ended up happening was I transferred and I graduated I got a business degree Joe is a father he's looking at his kids like you want to sell some weed once you graduate college I'll give you all the drugs you want okay son's complaining about not having money for something for a toys you looking for money sign up for college okay he's a very idiot gets a bunch lady ████ Jesus free money I don't know I learned the financial stuff the hard way dude I ████ my first thing I ever got like credit card was like yeah they'd be ripping people off yeah Latino ████ dude what is that I just

9:15 paid off my PS1 dude is that is that like some layaway ████ yeah some little it's like they give them they give anybody credit because my friends you know the bicycle guy I was telling them like I want to get a a PS uh PS4 is just like okay and I'm like how does that work it's easy they give you anything money really and I went over there I didn't know nothing oh I do this and that how much you make and I don't even I just said a number like 80 000. I just said anything I said anything I was scared I was like 80 000 I think that's a good amount they're like okay you have an ID and they're like here you go you have like three thousand dollars in credit I'm like they got your PSO and I got my PS I got a couple ps1s that's how they ████ you though and that's when they ████ you because they're like oh you don't have to pay like 20 a month I'm like that's it

10:05 for like 10 years God damn dude you know it's all interest and ████ that's not a good thing God damn when you're young you don't know what interest is it's like you got interest in a girl that's all you know what interesting like I got interested in her he goes yeah well you got interested and you're like really I was like well I'm painting on time but that ████ was like I ended up paying like five thousand dollars for a PS1 he says Christ it's not like five geez that's how they get you five geez I'm like but it was only 300. how's that work yo that's how they ████ up the poor communities though all those check cash places the credit places but we don't know about friends and they stack on like 20 something percent interest they do that on purpose people hard man or they really really hide it underneath the next line of fine print where it's like no interest your first like three months right and then

10:55 so you don't have the habit of paying back and you just buy buy same with the car lots hey no job no credit no problem we got you and then so you buy this used car for three grand and then you end up paying 20 grand yes or you just get a repo because you you're all ████ you know and then it's like dude they ████ people over good business strategy is it though I don't know I don't I don't like that kind of business where you pray upon people that don't understand but you don't have to pray hey bro that's America you don't like it go back to your God damn God damn country song ████ colors don't run bro yeah that's right brother you're really pisses me off you don't like it you can get out I'll let that long hair pass but don't bring up that negative ████ around here God damn it America son ████

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