By Tobias Carroll There’s something especially disquieting about using a global crisis as a way to illicitly make money. Last year, the Los Angeles Times‘s Michael Finnegan reported on what he dubbed “one of the more lurid scams that swindlers across the U.S. mounted last year.” It involved a married couple, Richard Ayvazyan and Marietta Terabelian, who were arrested under suspicion of heading a scam that involved getting $18 million in pandemic relief loans for nonexistent businesses. Ayvazyan and Terabelian were convicted, but later escaped the country while awaiting sentencing. Now, more de…