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 created to help small businesses during COVID-19 pandemic.

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 founder of the lender service provider Blueacorn has ...

SBA suspends 6,900 Minnesota borrowers over suspected $400 million fraud scheme involving PPP and disaster loans during COVID-19 pandemic response.

Administrator Kelly Loeffler said Thursday night that her agency has suspended “6,900 Minnesota borrowers” over suspected fraudulent activity regarding

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 charged with fraudulently seeking more than $8 million ...

The ringleader of a Utah COVID-19 scheme has been sentenced to prison. Halee Ann Mehlbauer, 40, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after she fraudulently obtained approximately $177,030 in COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans,

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 Administration and the U.S. Treasury Department relaunched the ...

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 omnibus government funding bill passed by the House and ...

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 government says it will begin disbursing loan money to company ...

Federal prosecutors reached a deal with a man who was accused of defrauding a Covid-era program. M.A. Yah pleaded guilty to making false statements. Yah, who ran The Heartland News, was originally arrested in 2021. Indictment documents said the arrest happened after they submitted a fake Paycheck Protection Program loan application.