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Together, Dodge and his wife and co-conspirator, Tammy Dodge, attempted to obtain $2.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds by setting up fake businesses to obtain money from the Paycheck Protection ...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [1]
June 14, 2024 at 9:47 PM. A Paramus man admitted in federal court to unlawfully obtaining COVID-19 emergency relief funds, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger stated on Friday. George Leguen, 51 ...
June 29, 2023 at 3:01 PM. Fraudsters used the faces of dolls and mannequins to create fake IDs to scam the government’s largest Covid -19 relief programme. The scam using doll faces to create ...
President Trump signs the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (H.R. 266), April 24, 2020. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a $953-billion business loan program established by the United States federal government during the Trump administration in 2020 through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to help certain businesses, self ...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, [ b][ 1] also known as the CARES Act, [ 2] is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [ 3][ 4] The spending ...
The Justice Department last week announced it had charged around 3,500 people and seized $1.4 billion in stolen Covid-19 relief funds — a tiny fraction of the estimated fraud.
Benefit/grant scams. In this variation of COVID-19 scams, the fraudster claims that the victim is eligible for a COVID-19 benefit payment. This scam is a derivative of the advance-fee scam, where the scammer will ask the victim for a small payment in return for the 'benefit'. The scammer will then ask for further payments under the guise of ...