A Little Rock woman was recently arrested and arraigned on federal mail fraud and money laundering charges, and if convicted, one of the items she will forfeit is property in Baxter County. Thirty-one-year-old Chandler Wilson Carroll is facing four counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering for abusing the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).
According to court documents KATV obtained from the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Arkansas, the property is Lot 18 in the Wildcat Shoals Subdivision.
As previously reported, Wilson’s charges are related to allegations that she fraudulently took over $2 million, authorized through the CARES Act, to assist businesses during the pandemic. Carroll was an owner of 3 different businesses involved in the alleged fraud: WilCarr Ventures, Wilson Carroll Research Services (WCRS), and Brook Haven Lodge. She listed 121 as the number of employees with a $640,000 monthly payroll, but WilCarr Ventures did not file any taxes in 2019, 2020, or 2021. According to court documents, a former employee stated the business had just started and had at the most four employees in 2020. The documents also state the money was used to buy a Ford vehicle, a house, and other items.
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