An estimated $400 billion of COVID-aid was improperly allocated to falsified or stolen Social Security numbers, according to ...

A Passaic County attorney who admitted to fraudulently obtaining $350,000 in unemployment benefits and COVID-19 relief funds ...

The prevalence of Covid relief fraud has been known for some time, but the enormous scope and its disturbing implications are only now becoming clear. Even if the highest estimates are inflated ...

A total of $800 billion was earmarked for relief by the Small Business Administration during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. "I can't rule out that the fraud could be not only in the tens ...

COVID RELIEF SCHEME: California woman tried to avoid prison time by fleeing to Montenegro. Feds say it didn't work. Senior SBA official says report overestimates fraud In a lengthy letter attached ...

It was a perfect storm for fraud." Law enforcement officials said they have reached the midway point of investigating and prosecuting COVID relief crime. In 2022, Congress extended the statute of ...

While the disease may no longer be an everyday crisis, the pandemic saw the emergence of a new problem: efforts by fraudsters to steal Covid-19 relief funds from the government. While fraud ...

He knew the relief plan would be irresistible to scam ... “The victim gets lost in this,” Kane says. “In Covid fraud, it’s usually the government that ends up paying.

The remaining money came from the Response and Relief Act (December 2020 ... aid those suffering as a result of the coronavirus pandemic the largest fraud in U.S. history.

A Clifton lawyer was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for fraudulently receiving over $300,000 in COVID-19 relief ...

A Naples man has changed his plea to guilty in a $2.6 million COVID-19 relief fraud case. His case is among several updated Monday by the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle ...

(MORE: House Republicans kick off fraud investigation into billions in COVID pandemic relief money) The Loews are just two of the thousands of Americans whose stolen identities were used to ...