In May 2022, the US Department of Justice (US DOJ) filed its first civil complaint for Payroll Protection Program (PPP) fraud under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) in a Florida federal court. The ...

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The amount of money being lent to coronavirus-damaged small businesses through the federal Payroll Protection Program has declined, in part because publicly traded companies have returned a reported ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 62-year-old man from Redmond pleaded guilty Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Seattle to conspiring to defraud the federal ...

Two former Howell residents have been charged by federal authorities with bilking the Payroll Protection Program that was set up to aid small businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jean E ...

PITTSBURGH — Two people from Washington County have been sentenced for trying to defraud the United States government by submitting false Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loan applications totaling ...

FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (WJRT) - A Frankenmuth man is accused of defrauding a pandemic payroll program out of nearly $41,000. The Michigan Attorney General's Office says 66-year-old Anthony Golden applied ...

The rest of the loan money landed in the pockets of the company's owners and shareholders, according to a new report. Why the rollout of the $2 trillion CARES Act was a colossal mess Desperate ...