Former SBA and IRS employee Attallah Williams is charged with embezzling $3.5 million from COVID-19 relief funds.

An Indian-origin businessman, Rahul Shah, has been sentenced to six years in prison for orchestrating a massive scheme to ...

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 ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration was the lifeline for millions of companies during the COVID-19 pandemic, guaranteeing zero-interest loans and forgiving them if the money was used for payroll ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The deadline for small business owners in the U.S. to apply for loans from the Paycheck Protection Program is Saturday. More than 8,400 Houston businesses have received PPP ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 30-year-old Jacksonville woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several charges including wire fraud involving the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to the ...

We examine the longer-term effects of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the PPP Liquidity Facility (PPPLF) on small business (SME) lending using bank-level Call Report data. To identify a ...