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Brattle Street investment manager charged with taking PPP funds

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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The Manhattan District Attorney has filed criminal charges against investment manager Gregory Blotnick of Brattle Street Capital. DA Cy Vance alleges that Blotnick stole over $2.4 million from multiple banks through loan applications for the Paycheck Protection Program.

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Blotnick charged in PPP loan "scam"

Blotnick faces multiple counts of second-degree grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property and one first-degree count of scheme to defraud in a New York County criminal court. In a statement, Vance said Blotnick "repeatedly took advantage of a system intended to provide lifelines to small businesses...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.