Anchorage commissioner charged with defrauding city for more than $1.6M in COVID relief funds

Anchorage commissioner charged with defrauding city for more than $1.6M in COVID relief funds

The James M. Fitzgerald U.S. Courthouse & Federal Building in downtown Anchorage, pictured here on a rainy day, Aug. 31, 2022. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) An Anchorage city commissioner and her husband have been charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $1.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Officials with the U.S. Attorney’s office say 41-year-old Rosalina Mavaega and her husband, 44-year-old Esau Fualema Jr., misused money that was …