An Atlantic County man whoadmitted lying about owning two businesses so he get $1.3 million in COVID-19 loans from the government in the early days of the pandemic was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, federal prosecutors said. Jeremy Earley, 42, of Egg Harbor Township, pleaded guilty last year to engaging in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey. Earley paid a woman, Rhonda Thomas, of Sicklerville, $400,000 to submit a pair of fraudulent loan applications for a pair of phony businesses — …