An anonymous tipster reached out to NPR a few months ago with an intriguing allegation: A high-ranking elected official in Chicago took out a suspicious pandemic loan back in 2021. To start this story ...

*The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created in 2020 to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, but some high-profile celebrities, including Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, are accused of ...

DALLAS — A Lubbock woman convicted on felony charges related to a fraudulent business scheme was sentenced to 30 months in prison, the Department of Justice announced Monday. Hope Leticia Hastey, 51, ...

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 ...

A Will County woman became the latest public employee charged in a sweeping investigation targeting Paycheck Protection Program fraud that has rocked several state agencies. The Illinois attorney ...

A former Miami cop pleaded guilty to wire fraud in PPP loan fraud case in Miami federal court on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Photo from UnSplash A former Miami police officer is facing up two decades ...

Black small-business owners have faced hurdles accessing the Paycheck Protection Program. Here’s how the African-American owners of MahoganyBooks in Washington, D.C., have kept their small business ...

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Few things are as core to our political debates these days as whataboutism and charges of hypocrisy. It’s much easier to accuse the other side of ceding the moral high ground than to defend your own ...