Two Charleston-area businesses were among the five total that entered into million-dollar settlements with federal authorities over Paycheck Protection Program fraud, according to the U.S. Department ...
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 ...
Regions Bank has agreed to pay a $4.9 million settlement to the Department of Justice in a case involving a COVID-19 relief ...
The Federal Reserve designed its Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility to ease liquidity issues and support small business lending during the pandemic. The liquidity facility allowed banks to ...
Signed into law in March 2020, the federal Paycheck Protection Program had major reach in Shasta County. The program created as part of the CARES Act provided forgivable, low-interest loans to help ...
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended his department’s decision to only release a partial list of the Paycheck Protection Program’s loan recipients, but said Congress could obtain additional ...