Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge has sentenced a Loxahatchee woman described as the ringleader of a South Florida Paycheck Protection Program fraud ...

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 ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended his department’s decision to only release a partial list of the Paycheck Protection Program’s loan recipients, but said Congress could obtain additional ...

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 ...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act was a federal law enacted in or around March 2020 designed to provide emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who ...

Signed into law in March 2020, the federal Paycheck Protection Program had major reach in Shasta County. The program created as part of the CARES Act provided forgivable, low-interest loans to help ...

A former NYPD detective living in Valley Stream was sentenced to up to 48 months in federal prison on Wednesday, June 3, for wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to defraud the Paycheck ...

Johnley Jorcilien, 34, received 10 years probation for laundering nearly $350,000 in fraudulent PPP loans. Jorcilien pleaded guilty and will serve one year of house arrest and pay restitution. He ...

The DOJ is pursuing False Claims Act cases against employers who accepted PPP loans in good faith seeking repayment of up to three times the loan amount plus interest. Professional overseas ...

Raisha Kelly, 44, of Loxahatchee, Florida, was sentenced to five years in prison for orchestrating a Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme. Kelly conspired with 13 others to submit fraudulent loan ...