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DOJ Updates Actions to Combat Fraud Related to COVID-19
On March 26, 2021, the Department of Justice provided an update on its criminal and civil enforcement efforts to combat fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to DOJ’s announcement, 474 defendants have been publicly charged with criminal offenses based on fraud schemes connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. Broadly, these schemes include:
Paycheck Protection Program Fraud: DOJ announced that at least 120 defendants were charged with PPP fraud in cases ranging from individual business owners who inflated their payroll expenses in order to obtain larger loans to organized criminal networks who submitted identical loan applications and supporting documents under different company names. According to DOJ, most of the defendants charged had misappropriated loan proceeds for prohibited purposes, including for purchasing homes, jewelry, and luxury
$70B in PPP and COVID-19 disaster loans from SBA paid to fraudsters, fake business owners
Florida man s ID used to scam the SBA
The Paycheck Protection Program has doled out hundreds of billions of dollars in pandemic relief to businesses in Florida and across the country. But a government watchdog found more than $70 billion may have been lost to fraudulent claims. A Florida man discovered his ID was used to scam the SBA.
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The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has doled out hundreds of billions of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic relief to businesses in Florida and across the country. But a government watchdog found more than $70 billion may have been lost to fraudulent claims.
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Posted at 1:47 pm on December 17, 2020 by Greg P.
As Congress gets ready to (maybe) pass another round of Covid relief, Warren Buffett said that there will be more fraud associated with the PPP program and this is just what happens in âwartimeâ: There will be fraud connected to do it. If you try to do something huge like that. You ll read stories about people ⦠that happens in war time. says Warren Buffett on funding more PPP. Don t let that turn you away from something where millions of people are being helped. pic.twitter.com/kJqbqMMqkK
Yeah, well, maybe itâs time to put more investigators on the case because stealing from taxpayers in wartime isnât something we should tolerate: