As the COVID pandemic took hold in 2020, federal lawmakers created a series of loans to help struggling businesses stay afloat through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. More than ...

A family in Charlotte is charged with fraud for obtaining $124,000 in COVID-19 relief funds by submitting false applications ...

A Newsday analysis found 11 defendants were ordered to pay $19 million in restitution, of which $3.6 million has been ...

The Insolvency Service (IS) is to take over Covid loan fraud investigations after a review revealed taxpayers’ money was not ...

Eleven local residents have been ordered to pay $19.1 million in restitution, of which 19%, has been collected so far.

Six people were convicted of fraud in that scheme ... A federal investigation has uncovered tens of thousands of cases where applicants for COVID-19 pandemic relief loans may have misrepresented their ...

A Baltimore County businessman was sentenced for fraudulently obtaining over $1.3M in PPP loans, using the funds for personal ...

Brandon Cody Carter, 36, has been sentenced to 78 months for COVID-19 relief fraud. Carter fraudulently obtained over $800,000 in unemployment benefits. He used aliases and false information to ...

The U.S. government loses hundreds of billions to fraud each year, with criminals using stolen identities to make ...