Small Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler said Monday that her department is halting annual grants to Minnesota, amid an investigation into alleged fraud in COVID-era lending programs.

About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep small businesses afloat — part of a nationwide wave of ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service approved the first round of Buncombe County’s funding requests for the Emergency Watershed Protection program, ...

A Veterans Affairs nursing assistant from Brockton pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program loan for more than $20,000. Wigenie Francois, 44, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal district judge sentenced a Little Rock woman to Federal prison after she confessed to stealing close to $2.1 million in COVID-19 relief loans. Officials with the United ...

MADISON, Wis. (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PRESS RELEASE) - Attorney General Josh Kaul and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Wednesday announced a $4.25 million ...

Menards will pay Wisconsin $750,000 to settle a deceptive advertising investigation. The home improvement store will make its 11% rebate program more user-friendly for shoppers. An investigation found ...

A Texas woman with ties to Kansas City was sentenced Wednesday in federal court for her role in a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme that resulted in more than $250,000 in fraudulent Paycheck Protection ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A local business owner had been indicted in federal court for allegedly obtaining $316,062 through fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans in 2021 and laundering more ...

Dec. 16 (UPI) --Three Chinese-owned companies agreed to pay $7.3 million to resolve allegations they submitted false claims to secure loans under a COVID-19-era program to help pay employees, the ...

A Connecticut man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison and was ordered to pay about $2.3 million in restitution for defrauding a COVID-19 pandemic relief program. Yasir G. Hamed ...

Westmoor Country Club in Brookfield will pay $1.25 million to the federal government to settle claims it improperly obtained a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program. The repayment is nearly ...