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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

March 29, 2026 – FRESNO, CA – Gurjeet Bath, 37, of Fresno, was sentenced last Monday by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston to 14 months in prison for theft of government property, U.S. Attorney ...

A local business owner who exploited federal COVID-19 relief programs to purchase real estate has been sentenced to over a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an agreement to resolve False Claims Act allegations, Herb Chambers, several of his companies, and an officer of one of his ...

The payment will resolve claims it violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying eligibility for a second-draw PPP loan ...

A federal judge has sentenced a Loxahatchee woman described as the ringleader of a South Florida Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme to five years in prison. U.S. District Judge Federico A.

Federal prosecutors claim that Carl Delano Torjagbo siphoned millions in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds and filed fraudulent tax returns to generate false tax refunds. On January 27, 2026, ...