The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act was a federal law enacted in or around March 2020 designed to provide emergency financial assistance to the millions of Americans who ...

An Alabama-headquartered bank with $157.4 billion in consolidated assets has agreed to settle allegations stemming from its ...

Big companies that received loans under the Payment Protection Program may be forced to give it back. The Small Business Administration issued new guidelines for borrowers. It implies that if ...

One of the founders of the lender service provider Blueacorn has entered a guilty plea in a scheme intended to fraudulently obtain COVID relief money through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). A ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An El Paso business owner who advertised her services to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program was arrested by federal agents ...

You've probably heard a lot about the Payment Protection Program - a forgivable SBA loan paid for by the $2 trillion economic relief bill. But those loans aren't always forgivable. The interest rate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge has sentenced a Loxahatchee woman described as the ringleader of a South Florida Paycheck Protection Program fraud ...

Although it disagreed with the claims, the bank said it settled with the Justice Department this month “with the goal of closing this chapter and moving on.” ...

A South Jersey health system is paying $3.1 million to settle allegations that it improperly took a loan from the federal Paycheck Protection Program during the Covid era. The payment by Shore Medical ...

In April, I wrote about the Docklight case in Washington State. That case involved a qui tam action pursuant to the False Claims Act in which Docklight, a cannabis ancillary company, settled with the ...