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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.
The small business COVID-19 relief program, approved as part of the CARES Act in March 2020, tasked lenders with vetting and approving applicants to the program, with the cash ultimately ...
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 ...
The CEO of a daycare business based in Warner Robins pleaded guilty earlier this month to financial fraud after an investigation by the FBI and IRS. Middle Georgia daycare CEO faces $1 million ...
In direct response to election changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia; the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign launched numerous civil lawsuits contesting the election processes of Georgia. All of these were either dismissed or dropped. The State of Georgia v.
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 ...
As of April 17, 2021, there were 868,163 confirmed cases, 60,403 hospitalizations, and 17,214 deaths. [1] All of Georgia's 159 counties now report COVID-19 cases, with Gwinnett County reporting over 85,000 cases and the next three counties (Fulton, Cobb and DeKalb) now reporting over 56,000 cases each.
A Georgia couple recently was scammed out of $20,000. ... Con artists who use the telephone to perpetrate the fraud of pretending to be a representative of a person’s bank or financial institute ...