In one of the largest national crackdowns on fraud targeting federal coronavirus aid, the Justice Department on Wednesday said it had brought 718 law enforcement actions in connection with the alleged theft of more than $836 million.
The vast array of criminal charges and other sanctions — part of a federal sweep conducted over the past three months — reflected the ongoing, costly work in Washington to recover stolen pandemic funds roughly three years after the peak of the public health crisis.
There was almost no oversight on loans being given out. One of my businesses had a fraudulent ppp loan taken out on it. Not only was it a weed dispensary but had already burned down in a fire before the loan was approved. I contacted everyone I could to notify them about the fraud, FBI, sba, local police. It was devastating to get a letter in the mail out of knowwhere from the sba asking for payments on 135k. About had a heart attack. They took our name off the list and we don’t have to pay, so somewhat of a happy ending.