Florida Man’s Citizenship Revoked After Discovery of $3.8 Million COVID Fraud Scheme

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Twenty-five-year-old Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to launder money in 2022, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. A jury deemed him guilty of “obtaining citizenship contrary to law.”

An investigation into the Haitian-native’s business records indicated that between April 2020 and May 2021, he and his co-conspirators allegedly submitted a total of 40 fake loan applications that garnered $3.8 million in proceeds, the release stated. Philossaint allegedly received about $549,000 from these schemes.

He was sentenced to 50 months in prison in June 2023. In February 2026, the court began the process of revoking his citizenship over unlawfully concealing his involvement in the 2020 fraud scheme, according to the press release.

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