Red Power Rangers star Jason Lawrence Geiger has been busted for a $3.5 million COVID relief investment scam. According to reports, 19 others including a Texan actor were all arrested by the police. The COVID relief scam was masterminded by Andrew Moran and Michael Hill, ‘Tank’.
The Daily Mail has the details;
The Texas actor who played the red Power Ranger in the hit 1990s TV series and subsequent films was arrested Tuesday and charged with fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief loans.
Jason Lawrence Geiger, 47, starred in the franchise under the stage name Austin St. John. He was arrested on Tuesday, and remains in jail awaiting a hearing in Plano, Texas, on Monday.
Geiger was one of 19 people charged for participating in the scheme, which federal authorities say resulted in $3.5 million in fraudulently obtained funds.
The scheme was spearheaded by 47-year-old Michael Hill – a.k.a. ‘Tank’ – and Andrew Moran, 43.
The two ringleaders recruited others to use ‘an existing business or create a business’ to apply for the loans, part of the $349 billion federal CARES Act, designed to help struggling businesses during the pandemic, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas.
Those in the network obtained the pandemic relief funds and paid Hill and Moran, who then used the money for themselves. In some instances those accused sent the money to a man named Jonathan Spencer, 33, who invested it in foreign exchange markets, prosecutors said.
Geiger pleaded not guilty to the single charge against him, and his attorney said he plans to ‘vigorously defend himself against this allegation.’
They didn’t get paid much to be a Power Ranger.
The Actors Were Only Paid $600 a Week And they were paid like a bunch of unknown actors too. While the cast of other 90s sitcom phenomenon Friends were each earning $1 million per episode, the cast of the Power Rangers were paid the paltry sum of $600 a week.
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