The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide financial aid for small ...

Retiring Inspector General Deborah Witzburg reported the new round of fraud in what will be her final quarterly report. Her successor will inherit 80 more cases still in the pipeline.

As of May 2024, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) had flagged nearly 38,000 already-forgiven Paycheck Protection ...

Explore the PPP Small Business Loans Program, its benefits, eligibility rules, and how it supported small businesses during ...

Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent ...

Prosecutors said that Stephanie Hockridge, a former employee of Phoenix news station ABC15, was involved in a pandemic-era paycheck protection program (PPP) loan scheme Hockridge and her husband ...

A rehab center and its owner were ordered to pay over $1.5m for violating the False Claims Act with PPP loans.

One of the principal benefits of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) is that the principal and interest from any loan forgiven is not includable in a taxpayer’s gross income. In what has developed ...

Defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy. PPP loans were designed to help small businesses keep their workers on payroll during the Covid-19 pandemic. While loans were obtained from various lenders, ...