A nationwide fraud scheme has landed Wilmington's Jady Solano in prison for more than six years. (Photo by designer491/Getty Images iStockphoto)

Wilm. tax preparer gets almost 7 years in prison for $9M COVID relief fraud

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Government

A Wilmington tax preparer was sentenced Monday to more than six years in federal prison for orchestrating a nationwide fraud scheme that siphoned off more than $9 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Jady Solano, 43, was sentenced to 80 months behind bars after prosecutors said he led a wide-ranging effort to defraud the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was …