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 ...

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

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

A former Merrill Lynch advisor has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $2.7 million dollars from investors and scamming the government’s pandemic program out of nearly $4.8 million. Jared Dean Eakes, ...

A former Small Business Administration employee who learned the system from the inside and cashed in on pandemic loans for herself and others was sentenced Friday to over four years in prison for ...

As federal contractors continue to navigate the post-pandemic compliance landscape, a recurring issue has emerged in government audits and incurred cost reviews: whether and how contractors must ...

DENVER, Colo. -- President Trump recently approved changes to the Paycheck Protection Program to give small business owners more opportunities to qualify for loan forgiveness. Some owners say even ...