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Mid-Year Update: PPP Investigations Continue as DOJ Enforcement Priority

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As we enter the second half of 2025—over five years now since the COVID-19 pandemic began—federal government scrutiny relating to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans received in the early days of the pandemic is still...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

More DOJ Double-Dipping PPP Fraud News

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The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) continues rolling out new settlement agreements related to COVID-19 fraud - highlighting the government’s and a common relator’s efforts to crack down on those alleged to have improperly...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

PPP Loans: Overview of Prior Guidance

The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) began with rushed legislation and a race for financial support in the middle of a pandemic. This race was hardly a straight line as the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) and the...more

Snell & Wilmer

SBA Adopts New Process for Absolving Fraudulent Loans in Attempt to Provide Certainty to Affected Businesses

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The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) was created on March 27, 2020 as part of the first COVID-19 relief package. Over the past year, Congress appropriated almost $700 billion to the PPP in an effort to provide forgivable...more

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Important Lessons from the DOJ's First Civil Action for CARES Act Loan Fraud

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On January 12, 2021, the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) settled its first civil action for alleged fraud against the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) – the primary lending program under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Ninth Circuit Holds That SBA Loan Fraud Was Alleged Too Late: Takeaways For SBA Borrowers And Lenders

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On April 1, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court decision holding that a qui tam relator in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) action failed to file its complaint alleging Small Business...more

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