New year; new PPP. In the waning days of 2020 (Sunday, December 27, to be exact), President Trump signed HR 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a combination COVID-19 stimulus/relief and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ajinomoto Cambrooke, Inc., a company headquartered in Ayer., has agreed to pay $1,360,819.04 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by obtaining a Paycheck ...

A Los Angeles man was arrested Thursday and charged with fraudulently seeking more than $8 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Los Angeles man was arrested today and ...

As the federal government prepares to launch a $349 billion loan program meant to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, critics have growing concerns that some mom-and-pop shops ...

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 ringleader of a Utah COVID-19 scheme has been sentenced to prison. Halee Ann Mehlbauer, 40, has been sentenced to 15 ...

Millions of small business owners will be turning to the government, seeking help for an individual and nationwide cataclysm, the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The ...

Halee Ann Mehlbauer was sentenced to 15 months for fraudulently obtaining $177,030 in PPP Loans, with supervised release and ...

Federal prosecutors reached a deal with a man who was accused of defrauding a Covid-era program. M.A. Yah pleaded guilty to ...