A social media influencer who flaunted luxury cars, exotic travel, and an “alpha male” lifestyle to millions of followers has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison after authorities discovered his glamorous image was built on fraudulent pandemic relief funds.
Scott Lee Hus, 28, known online as J.R. Jo with over 3 million TikTok followers, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with stealing more than $600,000 in PPP and EIDL loans intended to help small businesses survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. His bio boasted about “building legacies through art, music, fashion, and luxury,” but federal prosecutors painted a different picture: a carefully constructed facade financed by taxpayer dollars.
According to sources, between July 2020 and March 2021, Hus submitted loan applications through four different Florida-based companies, including entities with names like “Temple of the Tao, Inc.” and “Supreo Sociodad Anima LLC.” According to prosecutors, these applications contained false information about employee counts and annual revenues, allowing him to secure inflated loan amounts across six separate transactions.
The funds, designated for essential business expenses like payroll and rent, allegedly went toward cryptocurrency investments and luxury vehicles instead. But the fraud didn’t stop there. By 2023, Hus reportedly mailed fictitious payment vouchers totaling over $300,000 to car finance companies in an apparent attempt to eliminate his debt on a Lamborghini and Mercedes-Benz.
The case took a weird turn when Hus was arrested. After fleeing to Dallas and checking into a hotel under a fake name, U.S. Marshals tracked him down and extradited him back to Florida. Once in custody, he fired his public defender and embraced sovereign citizen ideology, filing dozens of motions claiming the court had no jurisdiction over him.
His legal filings included demands for a $10 billion bond, references to himself as “Scott R. Master” and a “divine heir and ambassador of Christ,” and requests to release his “name, mind, body, and soul without decay.” One document was titled “non-negotiable emergency notice of equitable subregation expressing my will and wishes of shity ship.”
Despite these efforts, reality eventually set in. After prosecutors spent three hours reviewing evidence with him, Hus pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in June 2025. He was sentenced in September and ordered to pay $69,000 in restitution, along with three years of supervised release.
His Instagram account, frozen since February 2025, remains a digital monument to a lifestyle built on deception.