The Kansas Department of Commerce partners with 95 counties that the state has designated as Rural Opportunity Zones, and it ...

Rhode Island and Providence education officials say a loan forgiveness program for educators of color is “no longer in effect ...

Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler said Thursday that her agency has suspended “6,900 Minnesota borrowers” over suspected fraudulent activity regarding pandemic-era ...

Thousands of Minnesota borrowers have been suspended after allegations of widespread fraud. The Small Business Administration (SBA) said on Thursday it had reviewed thousands of Paycheck Protection ...

A federal judge will give former Phoenix news anchor Stephanie Hockridge an extra month before she must report to prison in the Blueacorn paycheck protection program loan fraud case. Hockridge, who ...

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 ...

A company in Ayer agreed to pay $1.4 million to resolve claims that it improperly obtained pandemic paycheck relief money, according to federal prosecutors. Ajinomoto Cambrooke Inc., or Cambrooke, ...

A Veterans Affairs nursing assistant from Brockton pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program loan for more than $20,000. Wigenie Francois, 44, ...

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 ...

Westmoor Country Club in Brookfield will pay $1.25 million to the federal government to settle claims it improperly obtained a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program. The repayment is nearly ...