A Colorado man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for laundering more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds during the pandemic’s peak, federal officials announced last week.

William Chadwick, a 63-year-old man from Akron, laundered $228,284.09 in funds stolen from COVID-19 relief programs between May 2020 and August 2022, according to the plea agreement.

The man took a deal and pleaded guilty in June to one count of money laundering in the “romance fraud scheme,” and was sentenced to 15 months in prison in September, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado.

More than 100 applications for unemployment insurance were submitted on behalf of other people from addresses tied to Chadwick, totaling more than $1.4 million in approved benefits, the document stated.

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