COVID-19 fraudsters bought fancy cars, a Pokemon card – even a private island – CNBC
Associated Press reporter Richard Lardner kayaks to Sweetheart Island, off the coast of Yankeetown, Fla., on Aug. 5, 2023. Patrick Parker Walsh is serving five and half years in federal prison for stealing nearly $8 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds that he used, in part, to buy the island. Julio Aguilar | AP YANKEETOWN,…