Saturday, January 17, 2026

Search results for keyword: Paycheck Protection Program found in 8 News.

ppp-paycheck-protection-program-covid-relief
  • by david hall
Three more CPD employees, including a sergeant, face firing for PPP loan fraud

Retiring Inspector General Deborah Witzburg reported the new round of fraud in what will be her final quarterly report. Her successor will inherit 80 more cases still in pipeline.

ppp-paycheck-protection-program-covid-relief
  • by david hall
Three more CPD employees, including a sergeant, face firing for PPP loan fraud

Retiring Inspector General Deborah Witzburg reported the new round of fraud in what will be her final quarterly report. Her successor will inherit 80 more cases still in pipeline.

the-watchdogs
  • by david hall
Morton Grove man claimed to ship COVID-19 test kits to Medicare participants, but FBI says they were dead

Syed Shaukat Ahmed’s companies were paid more than $30 million by the federal government to provide free COVID-19 test kits to Medicare recipients. He has been charged with health care fraud.

the-watchdogs
  • by david hall
PPP fraud was fueled in part by brokers taking kickbacks but escaping punishment, Sun-Times finds

In one case, the CHA revoked a rent voucher for a woman accused of getting fraudulent loans through the Paycheck Protection Program that a broker on Facebook offered to arrange. And six fired Illinois state workers also said they kicked back some of their loans. But the people arranging them…