WASHINGTON - A loan program meant to help small businesses stay afloat and pay their employees has returned five months after its first two rounds of funding ended. The U.S. Small Business ...

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide financial aid for small ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A Cedar Rapids man, Don Edward Williams, Jr., has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for ...

Robert Turner, Mark Crosby and Earl Howard were charged in separate indictments returned by a federal grand jury late last ...

As of May 2024, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) had flagged nearly 38,000 already-forgiven Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans ...

One of the founders of the lender service provider Blueacorn has entered a guilty plea in a scheme intended to fraudulently obtain COVID relief money through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). A ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Prominent auto dealer Herbert G. Chambers, along with several of his affiliated companies and an executive officer, has agreed to pay $11.8 million to resolve allegations that they ...

Retiring Inspector General Deborah Witzburg reported the new round of fraud in what will be her final quarterly report. Her successor will inherit 80 more cases still in the pipeline.

Araceli Benitez allegedly advertised services to obtain Paycheck Protection Program loans. Benitez arrested in FBI, IRS investigation into COVID-19 relief fraud. Paycheck Protection Program was ...

A rehab center and its owner were ordered to pay over $1.5m for violating the False Claims Act with PPP loans.

Three men from the Kansas City metro were indicted by a federal grand jury last week for fraudulent PPP loans.