FBI’s most wanted fraud suspect captured after fleeing to Jamaica

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MIAMI — One of the FBI’s most wanted fraud suspects is behind bars after escaping the country.

Agents had been looking for Elaine Escoe for nearly two months.

They accuse her of submitting more than 90 fake applications for COVID relief funds through the Paycheck Protection Program.

The applications totaled $32 million.

Escoe was arrested back in May, but agents said she never showed up for her June court appearance.

Agents said they got a tip that she flew to Jamaica.

Authorities there helped with her arrest before she was brought back to the United States.

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Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.