Austin St. John Power Rangers

Power Rangers star Austin St John is among 18 defendants charged with violations of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the Eastern District of Texas.

He appeared in Power Rangers Zeo and in a 2002 episode of Power Rangers Wild Force. Apart from saving lives on TV, Austin St John also worked as a healthcare professional in the Washington area for over a decade. If convicted, the defendants face 20 years in prison.

The alleged scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program involving Austin St. John netted the scammers $3.5 million.

The second round of the PPP ended in May 2021. St. John, whose real name is Jason Geiger, allegedly obtained more than $400,000 in fraudulent PPP loans and transferred them to a co-defendant, not for the purposes of using the loans as they were intended. "Once enlisted, Moran is alleged to have assisted his co-conspirators with the application paperwork, including fabricating supporting documentation and submitting the application through the online portals."

According to TMZ, the actor - who played Jason Lee Scott on the show - was taken in after federal agents showed up at his home in an upscale neighborhood in ...

Charged: St John was allegedly charged with fraud in a very large federal criminal case, it was claimed. Not easy: According to TMZ, the actor was taken in after federal agents showed up at his home in an upscale neighborhood in McKinney holding AR-15 guns and 'raided' his residence. No peace now: Austin St John of the 1990s hit TV series Power Rangers was reportedly arrested at his home in Texas this week. He left the show in its second season over pay but returned for guest appearances. According to the site, the indictment alleges St John was part of a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program. - According to the site, the indictment alleges St John was part of a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program

Austin St. John, the original Red Ranger, was arrested and charged with defrauding the government to receive COVID-19 relief loans.

Before that, Skylar Deleon, who had a non-speaking role as a child actor on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, was convicted in 2008 of three counts of first-degree murder. Ricardo Medina Jr., who played the Red Ranger on Power Rangers Wild Force, was sentenced in 2017 for fatally stabbing his roommate with a sword. St. John, born Jason Lawrence Geiger, starred as Jason Lee Scott, the Red Ranger, on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which premiered in 1993. He also had cameos on some of the other Rangers shows over the years. Andrew Moran, another defendant, is alleged to have helped his co-conspirators with fabricating supporting documentation and submitting the application through the government's online portals. Austin St. John, the actor who played the original Red Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series of the 1990s, found himself in hot water with the feds this week.

A federal indictment alleges 18 people, including Austin St. John, took advantage of the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program.

While St. John started his career as a Power Ranger in the early '90s, he's still involved with the franchise. Before the trial, Medina Jr. had alleged he killed his roommate in self defense. It's alleged that in total, the 18 defendants received more than $3.5 million across 16 separate small business loans. "I want to say I am very, very, very sorry for what occurred. Another former Power Ranger, Ricardo Medina Jr. (who was known as Cole Evans, the Red Wild Force Ranger on Power Rangers Wild Force) pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2017 after he fatally stabbed his roommate with a sword. Austin St. John (real name Jason Lawrence Geiger) who played the Red Power Ranger Jason Lee Scott in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, was arrested Thursday morning after an FBI raid at his home in McKinney, Texas.