Tampa woman sentenced to prison for defrauding bank for nearly $600K in PPP funds

52-year-old woman plead guilty in January to falsifying loan papers and inventing fake businesses to cash in on COVID relief

By Louis Llovio
| 1:44 p.m. April 12, 2022
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Tampa Bay-Lakeland

A Temple Terrace woman has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $7,500 for committing bank fraud to obtain PPP loans.

U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell sentenced 52-year old Bridgitte Keim after she plead guilty in January to submitting false applications and documentation in order to obtain federal Paycheck Protection Program loans and for recruiting family members and friends to provide their information in exchange for “free COVID money.”