Jury Convicts Portland’s Beniamin Lucescu in SBA Pandemic-Relief Wire-Fraud Case
September 11, 2026 (USAO-OR announcement / “guilty today” wire dateline)
A federal jury in Portland found Beniamin Lucescu, 57, a Portland resident, guilty of:
Sources
- Assigned primary (USAO District of Oregon): Portland Man Found Guilty of Stealing Pandemic Relief Funds — live
justice.govpage blocked this pass by an Akamai interstitial; full HTML not retrieved. Wayback CDX lists a 200 snapshot at20260912015516(Sept. 12, 2026, 01:55 UTC); archive body timed out / empty this pass. - USAO dateline (distributor, not the PR body): PUBT listing — “United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon 09/11/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/11/2026 18:46”; “published this content on September 11, 2026 … Distributed … September 12, 2026 at 00:46 UTC.” PUBT did not host the article text (“The text of this article is not available at the moment”).
- Nearest full-text reprint of the USAO release: Right Now Oregon, Sept. 11, 2026 — local rewrite using USAO facts and the Bradford quote. Treat as wire reprint of the USAO release, not an independent investigation. Title on this outlet differs (“Convicted in Nearly $500,000 Pandemic Relief Fraud Scheme”).
- Title-matched teaser: Spot On Oregon — exact USAO headline; opening clause “A federal jury found Beniamin Lucescu, age 57, a Portland resident, guilty today of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering…”; full story pointed to Gorge Country Media (full Gorge page not retrieved this pass).