Charleston man learns his sentence for PPP loan fraud

A Charleston man who pleaded guilty to fraudulently accepting more than $20,000 in pandemic relief funds was sentenced this week. 26-year old Aalik Wilsher was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay $20-thousand in restitution after he defrauded the Paycheck Protection Program, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia. Prosecutors said Wilsher falsely certified that his business had been in operation since 2019 and that he’d earned nearly $100,000. The loan was approved.