Pastor Rudolph Brooks Jr Facing 20 Years For Using $3.5M In PPP Loans To Buy Cars

Pastor Rudolph Brooks Jr Is Facing Wire Fraud Charges That Could Land Him In Prison For 20 Years After Using $3.5M In PPP Loans To Buy Cars Including A Tesla

A pastor in Washington D.C. is facing up to 20 years in prison after he allegedly used $3.5 million in PPP loans to splurge on luxury cars. He also was alleged to have bought “several older model luxury vehicles,” according to The Sun.

Brooks is facing wire fraud charges that could land him in prison for 20 years and three years supervised release.

The FBI seized $2.2 million from pastor Rudolph Brooks Jr. Authorities accuse Brooks of using the loan money to buy a total of 39 used cars, including a 2005 Bentley Continental, a 2014 GMC Yukon XL, a 2015 Cadillac Escalade, two 2017 Infinity Q50s, a 2017 Mercedes Benz S Class, and a 2018 Tesla Model 3.

 

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The Kingdom Tabernacle of Restoration pastor first filed on April 7, 2020, and filed for the PPP loans a month later. According to the DOJ, Brooks filed for PPP loans for his Cars Direct Business on May 9, 2020.
His Cars Direct businesses was “forfeited” in 2012 and revived on May 28, 2020, an affidavit said.

He allegedly filed two other loans for $1.8million and $200,000 for other companies including Kingdom Tabernacle and Madaro Celtic Bank, as noted by The Daily Beast .

“In support of the Cars Direct PPP loan application, Brooks allegedly submitted fraudulent tax forms which allegedly reported $724,469 in payments via Forms 1099-MISC and $7,471,630 in total unemployment payments to employees from Cars Direct,” the DOJ said in a statement.

“IRS records do not reflect any tax filings made by Cars Direct for any tax period, indicating that Cars Direct has not hired employees or paid unemployment taxes.”