The pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a bloated, wasteful mess—and now the guy responsible for running it is getting a promotion. President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that ...

Halee Ann Mehlbauer was sentenced to 15 months for fraudulently obtaining $177,030 in PPP Loans, with supervised release and ...

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 01: A bipartisan group of Democrat and Republican members of Congress as they announce a proposal for a Covid-19 relief bill on Capitol Hill on December 01, 2020 in ...

Jason L. Hemingway, 47, faces two counts each of bank fraud and making false statements on loan applications, plus three ...

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Fraudsters used the faces of dolls and mannequins to create fake IDs to scam the government’s largest Covid-19 relief programme. The scam using doll faces to create false IDs made up a small part of ...

The Paycheck Protection Program is one of the most successful government programs ever created. It distributed $800 billion of forgivable loans during the once-in-a-century pandemic to over six ...

When the Paycheck Protection Program launched during the pandemic shutdowns of spring 2020, it immediately became a chaotic free-for-all. Called PPP for short, the program offered simple-to-get, ...

Westmoor Country Club in Brookfield, Wisconsin, will pay $1.25 million to the federal government to settle claims it ...

12:22 p.m. April 17, 2024: An earlier version of this column incorrectly identified Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.) as a Democrat. You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is ...