Austin St. John, the actor who played the Red Power Ranger in the 1990s TV show Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers is facing up to 20 years in prison for participating in COVID-19–related wire fraud. St. John was part of a ring of 18 people who filed for $3.5 million in fraudulent PPP loans for existing or newly created small businesses. This is just the latest in the curse of the Red Power Ranger: in 2017 the actor who portrayed the Red Wild Force Ranger in Power Rangers Wild Force pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter for stabbing his roommate with a sword.
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