Regions Bank has agreed to pay a $4.9 million settlement to the Department of Justice in a case involving a COVID-19 relief loan program. According to the DOJ, Regions was alleged to have forgiven a ...

Former Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva, who was expected to change his plea from not guilty in a federal bank fraud and aggravated identity theft case, did not do so.

Amber Barkley is a writer and editor with over 10 years of experience in topics ranging from personal finance to marketing analytics to fiction. She found her niche in personal finance in 2022, when ...

On August 4, the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) released an initial set of frequently asked questions regarding the forgiveness of paycheck protection program (“PPP”) loans (the questions, the ...

Of the 115 bills passed by the Alaska Legislature during the two-year legislative cycle that ends in 2026, several will take effect at the start of July. While many became law ...

The SBA Inspector General later found that PPP’s initial design lacked a fraud risk framework adequate to the program’s scale. I spent years on those cases at SBA, in forgiveness reviews, eligibility ...

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