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Accountant Harold Dotson sentenced to 3 years in prison for PPP loan fraud .

Scheme defrauded federal COVID-19 relief programs of nearly $25 million.

Dotson personally profited over $828,000 from fraudulent loan applications.

Main co-conspirator, Ahmed Sary, was sentenced to seven years last year.

A Gaithersburg accountant was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for a scheme in which he and several co-conspirators defrauded the federal government out of nearly $25 million meant to support small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than two years after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, Harold Dotson, 54, was sentenced to three years, plus six months of home confinement and anot

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