GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A Grand Rapids man has been sentenced for fraud in connection to COVID-19 relief funding.

Jemar Mason received his sentence on Wednesday. He will serve more than seven years in prison for scamming the government out of $1.4 million. Mason pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering by submitting fraudulent applications for the Paycheck Protection Program.

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Western Michigan U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said in a statement that Mason saw the COVID-19 pandemic “as an opportunity to get rich quick” with money intended to keep people from losing their jobs.

Mason was among four people, including a former Georgia police officer, who prepared and submitted fraudulent applications for the Paycheck Protection Program.