Influencer Sentenced to Prison for Using COVID-19 Loans for Luxury Apartment, Private Jet

An Instagram influencer was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for using stolen identities to secure more than $1 million in pandemic-related loans — finances she used to flaunt her lavish lifestyle on social media, federal prosecutors said.

Danielle Miller, 32, who has more than 34,000 followers on Instagram, used the stolen identities of more than 10 people to obtain pandemic-relief loans, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts said in a statement.

She used the money from the fraudulently obtained loans to live a high-society lifestyle that included chartering a private jet and renting a luxury apartment, the statement said.

Read more at NBC News