Another day, another story about pandemic relief fund fraud… except this one has a unique twist.
A Georgia man has been accused of fraudulently obtaining $85,000 in relief funds for an unnamed business that prosecutors say he misrepresented -- inflating its size and number of employees in his application.
You can guess then, probably, that the man -- Vinath Oudomsine -- didn’t use the money as intended once he received it. And boy didn’t he.
Prosecutors are alleging blew more than two-thirds of the money he received -- or, $58,000 -- on a single Pokemon card.
For those of you not familiar, Pokemon is a Nintendo video game character whose brand has expanded into an Anime series, films and a widely popular trading card game. In fact, the card game has become the most well-known trading game ever, with more than 34 billion cards sold, some of the rarest netting high sales prices.
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