Sometimes the good guys win, the bad guys get caught and go to prison.
Sometimes journalists like to tell the stories of these crooks, especially the dumb ones and the heartless ones. We do it mainly as a public service.
Sometimes we do it because it feels good to tell the world that justice triumphed.
This is one of those times.
A Palm Bay man named Johnson Lenois Eustache or Jean Eustache or Johnson W. Eustache — depending on what scam he was pulling at the moment — was sentenced to five years in federal prison for Covid relief fraud and tax fraud.
Good riddance. Brevard County, Florida and the world will be better off with Eustache locked away.
The soon-to-be 40-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in Haiti will spend the next several birthdays behind bars. He seemed to be on a path to prison during at least the last seven years or so.
Even when he was working an honest job — in the culinary department for the Magic Kingdom in 2015 — Eustache was running afoul of the law.
A sexual assault claim was made against him by a woman he met on a dating app. According to the report by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Eustache nearly raped the woman after violating her with his fingers. She escaped from his car and called her mother to come and pick her up. They went right to the authorities.
Eustache denied everything. He even denied knowing the woman and denied texting her even after investigators presented him with copies of calls and text messages and a…
