On November 21, 2022, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida sustained the debtors’ objection to mortgage lender Benworth Capital Partners, LLC’s proof of claim.
Already serving nearly seven years in federal prison for embezzling more than $700,000 from the trucking company where she worked, a Missouri bookkeeper was sentenced to two more years for committing Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud.
Lenders have disbursed $792.65 billion in potentially forgivable loans to small businesses and nonprofits through the Paycheck Protection Program, which began in April 2020 and ended this May.