Stephanie Hockridge was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the alleged fraud scheme that involved her husband.

A married couple who founded a PPP lender service provider is facing a federal indictment in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID relief money. Reis and Hockridge launched a company ...

On February 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint against an Idaho home health agency and its owner, alleging that a series of Paycheck Protection Program ...

Government loans during the COVID-19 pandemic helped boost staffing hours at some nursing homes, with lower-paid certified nursing assistants benefiting the most, according to a study published in ...

A Rockford business has paid $2 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it wrongly applied for and received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan, which was meant for small ...

A federal judge in Pennsylvania limited a group of plaintiffs' experts' opinions against a loan provider accused of failing to provide paycheck protection program funds, concluding the experts could ...

According to court documents, Stephanie Hockridge, 41, and her husband, Nathan Reis, 45, fabricated records to help ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A scam alert for small business owners. This scam targets business owners who got financial relief from the Paycheck Protection Program during COVID-19. The PPP loans didn't ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- In Illinois, nearly 70,000 small business owners got loans from the federal government before Payroll Protection Program funds were exhausted, and some are now wondering how those ...

Planned Parenthood affiliates received $90 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans meant for small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Government ...

Congress has introduced a bill that would enable more farmers to participate in the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program. The Paycheck Protection for Producers Act—H.R. 7175 and ...

After the Supreme Court reversed President Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan, critics of the decision are pointing to other recent examples of the government forgiving debt —many with far larger ...