In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden announced that he is appointing a new Chief Prosecutor to the DOJ’s COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force. According to the White House, the Chief Prosecutor will lead teams of specialized prosecutors and agents focusing on major targets of pandemic fraud, such as those committing large-scale identity theft, including foreign-based…
A 58 year-old man pled guilty on August 31, 2021 in Miami federal court to a felony Information charging him with wire fraud in connection with his fraudulent application to the U.S. Small Business Administration for a low-interest COVID-19 relief loan. According to the facts admitted at the change of plea, during 2019 and 2020 the man was employed on…
As another coronavirus relief package stalls in Congress, the federal government is cracking down on borrowers who obtained fraudulent loan proceeds from the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), established as part of the original Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“the CARES Act”). The CARES Act is a federal law enacted on March 29, 2020, designed to provide emergency…