Federal prosecutors have brought four new charges against Columbus businessmen Jabari Edwards and Antwann Richardson.
Edwards and Richardson were indicted in June for allegedly misusing more than $2 million in Paycheck Protection Plan and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program funding. In a superseding indictment filed Dec. 6 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, they were each hit with two new counts of wire fraud and two new counts of making false statements.
Previously they were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud and seven counts of money laundering. Edwards was also hit for two counts of making false statements.
Those charges stemmed from North Atlantic Security, which at the time was owned by Edwards. The new charges focus on EIDL money Edwards received on behalf of another of his companies, Edwards Enterprises LLC. It is a company incorporated in 2012, and whose most recent filing with the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office lists Edwards as the sole member.
Edwards Enterprises, according to the indictment, “… purports to do administrative management and general management consulting services.”
According to the indictment, Edwards lied about the company’s gross income on a tax form and an EIDL loan application.
It alleges he instead needed the money “for personal expenses and to bail out other businesses that needed the loan funds to survive.”
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