JPL employee admits he used COVID money fraudulently to grow pot
A JPL employee has pled guilty to lying on his applications for COVID loans in order to use the money “to pay off a real estate debt and fund his illegal cultivation of marijuana.”
Armen Hovanesian, 32, of Glendale, agreed to plead guilty to defrauding a government sponsored loan plan in 2020, admitting to using some of the fraudulently obtained cash to fund an illegal marijuana cultivation operation. Hovanesian works as a cost-control and budget-planning resource analyst for the JPL, which is a federally funded research lab for NASA, according to the United States Department of Justice.
From June 2020 to October 2020, Hovanesian submitted three loan applications to the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program for businesses he operated. The program provided low-interest financing to small businesses, renters and homeowners affected by disasters, including the coronavirus pandemic. As part of his plea agreement, he admitted to making false and fraudulent statements when applying for the loans, including lying about each business’s revenue from the previous year, as well as making “false and fraudulent” statements regarding what he planned to do with the money if approved for the loans. [emphasis mine]
That this guy’s job at JPL was essentially a bean counter suggests this might help explain the center’s recent budget and management problems. It certainly indicates the quality of its management has declined.
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A JPL employee has pled guilty to lying on his applications for COVID loans in order to use the money “to pay off a real estate debt and fund his illegal cultivation of marijuana.”
Armen Hovanesian, 32, of Glendale, agreed to plead guilty to defrauding a government sponsored loan plan in 2020, admitting to using some of the fraudulently obtained cash to fund an illegal marijuana cultivation operation. Hovanesian works as a cost-control and budget-planning resource analyst for the JPL, which is a federally funded research lab for NASA, according to the United States Department of Justice.
From June 2020 to October 2020, Hovanesian submitted three loan applications to the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program for businesses he operated. The program provided low-interest financing to small businesses, renters and homeowners affected by disasters, including the coronavirus pandemic. As part of his plea agreement, he admitted to making false and fraudulent statements when applying for the loans, including lying about each business’s revenue from the previous year, as well as making “false and fraudulent” statements regarding what he planned to do with the money if approved for the loans. [emphasis mine]
That this guy’s job at JPL was essentially a bean counter suggests this might help explain the center’s recent budget and management problems. It certainly indicates the quality of its management has declined.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Related:
LEBRON, COVID AND FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
Lebron James: 9/29/21 speaking on his thoughts related to Covid 19 and he and his family taking or not taking the experimental mRNA shot.
“Everyone has their own choice to do what they feel is right for themselves and their family and things of that nature,” James said during the Los Angeles Lakers media day in El Segundo, California. “I know that I was very skepticism (sic) about it all. But after doing my research and things of that nature, I felt like it was best suited for not only me but my family and my friends. That’s why I decided to do it.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/us/lebron-james-covid-19-vaccine/index.html
And I agree 100% with that statement, Lebron!
https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/bronny-james-suffers-cardiac-arrest-a-usc-practice/
“(Monday) while practicing Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest,” the James family said.
But was Lebron James and everyone else in our country and the world for that matter *allowed* to have the proper objective information about Covid 19 and the experimental mRNA “vaccine” and what possible issues that might occur regarding either?
And I would have to say absolutely NOT! Lebron and many others in our country and the world who had the responsibility to make rational best medical protocol choices regarding their and their families health were not allowed to have the required objective information that an individual must have to make that very consequential choice. You were told to do as they told you were to do or you were to lose your job!
The tip of the evidence iceberg: Twitter Files: Platform Suppressed Valid Information from Medical Experts about Covid-19 (yahoo.com)
“During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Twitter’s leaders bowed to government pressure to censor information that was true but inconvenient, suspended medical professionals who disagreed with establishment views, and relied on bots and foreign contractors to moderate complex scientific topics, according to the newest edition of the Twitter Files.”
https://nypost.com/2022/10/23/lawsuit-reveals-vast-censorship-scheme-by-big-tech-and-the-federal-government/
“We allege that top-ranking Biden administration officials colluded with those social media companies to suppress speech about the Hunter Biden laptop story, the origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of masks, and election integrity,”
I have great respect for you on this issue Lebron in attempting to make a responsible informed choice for you and your family. And you IMO were sabotaged by your own government, highly polarized subjective politics, big pharma and big tech in the pursuit of power, money and absolute control over populations here and around the world. And let the consequences be damned and be whatever they are as long as the bigger agenda is facilitated.
At what price our American freedom to make responsible and informed choices for you and your family? Possibly a very high price.
Are you paying attention yet America? JGL 7/25/23.
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JPL takes you higher –
Parsons was an out-and-out diabolist.
Everyone was so keen on MSFC hating, they forgot Pasadena is eat up with hippies.
They stabbed us in the back with Clipper…so I hope more investigations come to JPL to make their lives miserable.
Jeff Wright,
Did the Jet Propulsion Laboratory stab Marshall Space Flight Center in the back when an SLS rocket was not going to be ready in time to launch Europa Clipper, or did MSFC stab JPL in the back when they couldn’t supply the rocket in a timely manner?
Bob-
I know you’re doing your own thing, but the covid stuff is not at all what I come here for.
If I have to sift through all that stuff, I usually wait at least two weeks to check back in., and that is coming from someone who was refreshing 10-20 times a day to get your latest news post…
It’s not that I disagree with your stance, or your right to put it out there, I’m just offering constructive criticism. It’s not what SOME of us come here for.
Maybe change up the format so I don’t have to sift through it, or a sister website?
I don’t know, I’m just trying to offer some suggestions from a person who was here ALL THE TIME before 2020.
BTW – Genesis is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. And now I want a signed copy…
What are you writing now? Any hints as to what you might do next?
Mike: It is very simple, don’t read the posts that don’t interest you. I don’t change what I do to please others, especially when it appears they wish to avoid hearing things they don’t like.
As for my recent work, if you liked Genesis I am sure you will also like my most recent book, Conscious Choice. See the box elsewhere on BtB to find out how to get it. Autographed hard and paperbacks are available directly through me.
MIke: I must add that this particular post has little to do with COVID, and everything to do with fraud and mismanagement at JPL, which helps explain its recent problems on at least two projects.
Also, I have posted very little about COVID itself in the past few months, with major essays only coming about once every two to four weeks. If that is how you define “sifting through all that stuff,” you have a strange conception of this.
It really sounds like you want to silence any discussion of the topic. Does it make you uncomfortable? Were you one of those pushing masks and the jab, and now are embarrassed because the first was pointless and the second has caused a lot of unnecessary harm to many without doing anything to stop COVID? If so, intellectual honesty demands you own up to your errors, not try to silence anyone who is pointing them out.
Or are you one of those many Democrats who now support censorship?
Sorry if I am offending you, but I always speak honestly.
Related to the Zmans last post, everyone has an interest in taking the time and understanding this Covid / Vax situation:
ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS: COINCIDENCE?
1. Eric Clapton, 78: “Disastrous” after experiencing side effects.
2. Justin Bieber, 29: Facial paralysis, forced to cancel tour.
3. Haily Bieber, 26: “Stroke like symptoms”, minor blood clot?
4. Jamie Fox, 55: Possible brain blood clot?
5. Oscar Cabrera Adames, 28: Basketball player died, heart failure during stress test.
6. Bronny James, 18: Cardiac arrest, unconscious during basketball practice.
What do those in this very thin sample and short list of famous entertainment and sports figures above all have in common?
The average age regarding this particular short list is 39 years old. All participate in the entertainment and or sports industries that had extreme pressure to conform and comply regarding certain health related requirement issues between 2020 and 2023 in order to work.
All just coincidences compressed into three years? Could happen. You tell me what you believe all of these and the many others in the real world have in common regarding the past three years on planet earth and the statistical explosion in health-related issues, primarily heart, brain and blood clot related injuries and deaths.
Where there is risk there must be objective informed choice.
Note: Two very different technologies: Britannica:
* Traditional vaccine: “vaccine, suspension of weakened, killed, or fragmented microorganisms or toxins or other biological preparation, such as those consisting of antibodies, lymphocytes, or messenger RNA (mRNA), that is administered primarily to prevent disease.”
* mRNA based vaccine: “Recombinant DNA technology has also proven useful in developing vaccines to viruses that cannot be grown successfully or that are inherently dangerous. Genetic material that codes for a desired antigen is inserted into the attenuated form of a large virus, such as the vaccinia virus, which carries the foreign genes “piggyback.” The altered virus is injected into an individual to stimulate antibody production to the foreign proteins and thus confer immunity.”
* “Vaccination carries some risk of reaction, though adverse effects typically are very rare and very mild. The most common reactions to vaccines include redness and soreness around the vaccination site. More severe adverse reactions, such as vomiting, high fever, seizure, brain damage, or death, are possible for some vaccines. Such reactions are exceptionally rare, however—occurring in less than one in a million people for most vaccines.”
One in one million adverse reactions? How about one in thirty five?: Dr. Campbell interprets peer reviewed vaccine injury paper: One in 35: https://youtu.be/cd_RTf_ForA 18 MIN.
Be freely and objectively informed and let no one have the power to control that objective information.
Are you paying attention yet America? JGL 7/26/23
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