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Georgia federal prosecutors have accused five individuals with attempting to steal $4.1 million from a government COVID-19 program designed to provide relief to small business owners.
Mar. 19—VALDOSTA — A Georgia man convicted for money laundering after he fraudulently filed for $2.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and ...
A new report from Retirement Living has revealed that Georgia ranks No. 1 in the nation for fraud victims, with 1,564 reports per 100,000 residents.. The peach state also has the highest rate of ...
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 problems, until the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic was first detected in the U.S. state of Georgia on March 2, 2020. The state's first death came ten days later on March 12. As of April 17, 2021, there were 868,163 confirmed cases, 60,403 hospitalizations, and 17,214 deaths. [1]
The 2020 congressional insider trading scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving allegations that several members of the United States Senate violated the STOCK Act by selling stock at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and just before a stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.
In a separate case, Abad allegedly received more than $41,000 in two PPP loans in 2021 from a fictitious baked-goods business he ran from his home. He also claimed he earned $100,000 in annual ...
In any case, the relief sought by Powell, which was to decertify Georgia's election results, was impossible to grant, stated the judge. [19] On December 8, the plaintiffs filed an appeal (Case No. 20-14579) [60] of Batten's decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. [61]