The sentence comes after Mehlbaurer pleaded guilty on Sept. 24, 2025, to wire fraud and money laundering. Lopez was sentenced ...

A judge put a 34-year-old West Palm Beach man on 10 years of probation after he pleaded guilty to money laundering in a scheme through which he and co-conspirators obtained fraudulent federal Paycheck ...

Halee Ann Mehlbauer was sentenced to 15 months for fraudulently obtaining $177,030 in PPP Loans, with supervised release and ...

Eleven people were indicted after federal officials say they orchestrated a scheme to steal more than $2.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds meant to support small businesses struggling during the ...

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that 57 people have been arrested across the country for fraud related to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). In a press conference Thursday, officials ...

A Massachusetts man who staged his own suicide in a bid to avoid punishment for defrauding the government out of $543,000 in COVID-19 relief loans was sentenced to more than four years behind bars.

Jason L. Hemingway was indicted in federal court for allegedly obtaining $316,062 through fraudulent Paycheck Protection ...

Lonnie Smith-Matthews pleaded guilty to financial frauds including PPP loan deception and stealing a U.S. Treasury tax refund ...

A Texas woman formerly from Kansas City was sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in a $250,000 COVID-19 PPP loan ...

Luxury cars, homes, jewelry and casino trips were among the spoils of some of the biggest pandemic era fraud cases, according to a CBS News review of five years of government records and data.