Georgia Shrimper Sentenced to Prison Over False CDSOA Claims
Michael Brian Anderson was sentenced to 77 months in prison and ordered to pay $818,234 in restitution due to false claims under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia said…
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in a news release. Anderson applied to CBP for subsidies under the CDSOA, also known as the Byrd Amendment, based on fake shrimping business expenses of more than $24 million over a two-year period, the Justice Department said. "Based on Anderson’s fraud, the U.S. government paid Anderson more than $800,000 to which he was not entitled" and "Anderson used those illegally obtained proceeds to purchase boats, stock and real estate," it said. The sentence went beyond the standard guidelines "because of aggravating factors that included Anderson’s perjury during the trial and the number of victims in the case, including the use of a deceased person to further the scheme."