Former Rep. Cori Bush’s husband was indicted Thursday for allegedly making fraudulent claims to access government loans.

Cortney Merritts was charged with two counts of wire fraud after he collected $20,832 in payments from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs by lying about his businesses and sending the Small Business Administration sham applications to receive the loans, according to Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.