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(The Center Square) – With cases of the taxpayer-funded pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program fraud mounting, there’s little expectation taxpayers will get made whole.
The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a federal pandemic business relief loan, according to a report released Tuesday. The specifics of the alleged fraud likely won’t be known until reports on those cases are issued, a process than can take months. .