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 ...

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 Canadian molder with U.S. operations in Michigan and Indiana has agreed to pay more than $3.6 million to settle claims it improperly secured a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan. The deal ...

Tens of thousands of fraudsters splurged on Lamborghinis, vacation homes, private jet flights and Cartier jewelry by fleecing the PPP loan system in a $200 billion heist — and did it because the COVID ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Longtime car dealership owner ...

45-year-old Jabari Kadar Long was arrested Aug. 5 A federal investigation into a loan given to a Beverly Hills, Michigan, man during the coronavirus pandemic has led to a federal indictment, unsealed ...

A former TV news anchor and her husband have been indicted by the US Justice Department for allegedly scheming to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 relief money — a crime that could land them both behind ...

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 ...