As part of the PPP loan program, business owners can apply for 2.5 times their average monthly payroll costs up to $100,000 per year. Burns calculates the maximum that one of her self-employed ...

The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) added in a new provision that allows certain self-employed farmers to receive both an increase in their first draw PPP loan and a second draw PPP loan if ...

Quickly, PPP loans led to “unprecedented fraud levels ... In most cases on the OEIG website, the employees either lied about being self-employed or provided false information about their ...

A South Carolina woman was sentenced for money laundering related to a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme in West Virginia. According to a press release, 52-year-old Anna ...

Anna Marie Omar, 51, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., was sentenced Monday to five years of federal probation, including six months on home detention, and ordered to pay ...