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 ...

Two Charleston-area businesses were among the five total that entered into million-dollar settlements with federal authorities over Paycheck Protection Program fraud, according to the U.S. Department ...

Dec. 16 (UPI) --Three Chinese-owned companies agreed to pay $7.3 million to resolve allegations they submitted false claims to secure loans under a COVID-19-era program to help pay employees, the ...

Seven Las Vegas men have been arrested in connection with fraudulent COVID-19 relief loan applications that took a resulted ...

Regions Financial will pay nearly $5 million to settle allegations that it improperly approved forgiveness of a pandemic relief loan that was ineligible for the Small Business Administration's ...

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 ...

Urbandale man pleads guilty to PPP loan, bankruptcy fraud charges ...