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 ...

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 ...

A Tooele woman was sentenced last week to more than a year in prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $177,000 in small ...

The latest turn in a federal fraud investigation in Minnesota involves COVID-era loan programs through the Small Business ...

SBA suspends 6,900 Minnesota borrowers over suspected $400 million fraud scheme involving PPP and disaster loans during COVID ...

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 ...

About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program ...

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

Administrator Kelly Loeffler said Thursday that her agency has suspended “6,900 Minnesota borrowers” over suspected ...

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 ...

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 ...

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