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Knoxville company Hoffmann Quality Tools, owned by the Hoffmann Group, paid more than $1.4 million in fees to repay a loan after claiming money it didn't qualify for under the COVID-19 pandemic-era ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knoxville-based business has paid more than $1.4 million to settle allegations that it received forgiveness for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan that it was not ...

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The founders of a financial technology firm that arranged pandemic relief loans for thousands of small businesses nationwide — including more than 3,200 on Long Island — are each facing up to 20 years ...

More than four years after the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, stopped accepting applications, the U.S. federal government is still combating fraud that exploited the emergency fund disbursements ...

Former Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva is facing federal bank fraud and identity theft charges related to a $17,000 PPP loan. Silva allegedly misrepresented his business ownership to obtain the loan, ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta said 49-year-old Carl Delano Torjagbo was convicted of several crimes after obtaining a fraudulent $9.6 million PPP loan and filing fraudulent tax returns that ...

BATTLE CREEK, MI — A Michigan company received COVID funding it was ineligible to get because of its size, according to federal prosecutors, resulting in an investigation and a hefty payment to ...

Valley companies and nonprofit organizations retained more than 23,000 employees during the COVID pandemic, aided by more than $130 million of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, and ...