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Waste Watch: $200 Billion in COVID relief fraud
Billions in Covid relief funds potentially distributed fraudulently.
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Tillis’ legislation to fund SBA disaster relief is blocked by Paul
US Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, blocked a unanimous consent vote in the Senate Thursday on legislation that US Sen. Thom Tillis introduced last month that would refill the now depleted Small Business Administration’s disaster relief loan program, which ran out of money on Oct. 15.
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Felon tied to COVID relief scam will get new federal prison sentence
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a new prison sentence for a felon convicted of scamming the federal government out of $143,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. Appellate judges agreed that the trial judge in Byron Jones’ case made an error in setting the conditions for his eventual release from prison.
