Thousands of Minnesota borrowers are suspended from the U.S. Small Business Administration for suspected fraud activity. Officials say borrowers were approved for 7,900 Paycheck Protection Program and ...

A Maine health services company recently accused by a whistleblower of bilking taxpayers out of millions in Medicaid funds saw its spigot shut off this week as the state Department of Health moved to ...

Small Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler said Monday that her department is halting annual grants to Minnesota, amid an investigation into alleged fraud in COVID-era lending programs.

About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep small businesses afloat — part of a nationwide wave of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Federal Small Business (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler sent a letter Tuesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz alerting him that her agency will "halt" more than $5.5 million in annual support ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service approved the first round of Buncombe County’s funding requests for the Emergency Watershed Protection program, ...

MADISON, Wis. (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PRESS RELEASE) - Attorney General Josh Kaul and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Wednesday announced a $4.25 million ...

Menards will pay Wisconsin $750,000 to settle a deceptive advertising investigation. The home improvement store will make its 11% rebate program more user-friendly for shoppers. An investigation found ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A local business owner had been indicted in federal court for allegedly obtaining $316,062 through fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans in 2021 and laundering more ...

Dec. 16 (UPI) --Three Chinese-owned companies agreed to pay $7.3 million to resolve allegations they submitted false claims to secure loans under a COVID-19-era program to help pay employees, the ...

A Connecticut man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison and was ordered to pay about $2.3 million in restitution for defrauding a COVID-19 pandemic relief program. Yasir G. Hamed ...