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Congress Has a New Scapegoat for COVID Fraud: Banking Apps

Fintech platforms facilitated fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, according to a new congressional report.

Reason

Cook County’s chief judge investigating court employees who got COVID-19 relief loans

Four workers in other county departments have quit or been fired this year while under suspicion of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

Chicago Sun-Times

A congressional report says financial technology companies fueled rampant PPP fraud

Fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave potentially forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic, was largely due to financial technology companies, according to a new report.

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PPP firms gave selves loans, bought Porsche, $8M home, says report on COVID loan fraud

WASHINGTON — Some of the most prolific online lenders in the federal Paycheck Protection Program had remarkably lax fraud protection controls even as they approved billions of dollars worth of loans in the COVID-19 small business relief program.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

House panel says lax screening helped facilitate PPP fraud

A House investigations panel says financial technology firms “abdicated” their responsibility to screen out fraud in applications for a federal program designed to help small businesses stay open and keep workers employed during the pandemic

The Independent UK

East Pakistan debacle in 1971 a 'military failure', says Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari

KARACHI: Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has termed the East Pakistan debacle in 1971 a "colossal military failure," in a veiled jibe at the former Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who termed it a "political failure."

The Times of India

All you need to know as tolls on Irish motorways are set to jump to 'maximum' allowed

The only route that will not be affected by these price changes is The Dublin Port Tunnel

Irish Mirror

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Making a comedy out of the world's crisis - The Prognostications of Mikey Noyce

A PLAY, a Pie and a Pint (PPP) – the acclaimed lunchtime theatre at the Oran Mor venue in the West End of Glasgow – has been on something of a…

The National (Scotland)

Patricia Murphy: The debate Herschel Walker needed

Herschel Walker went into Friday night’s debate against U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock with one job — to convince the Republicans still undecided about him that he is capable of the basics of the job of being a U.S. senator.

Tribune News Service

Millions of PPP Loans Were Flagged as Potentially Fraudulent. Many Were Never Investigated.

A new report takes an illustrative look inside the Small Business Administration, which was clearly overwhelmed by the obligation to push unprecedented piles of money out the door quickly.

Reason

Facing federal PPP fraud investigations, online lender Kabbage files for bankruptcy

Online lender Kabbage was one of the biggest lenders in the first year of the Paycheck Protection Program, processing more than $7 billion in loans.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

The Ukrainian play caught in lunchtime limbo

EVER since it was founded by the late, great David MacLennan back in 2004, the lunchtime theatre A Play, A Pie And A Pint (PPP) has been…

The National (Scotland)

Police: Inmates got out of Illinois jail with pandemic loans

More than two dozen people have been charged in Illinois with fraudulently obtaining pandemic relief money, with authorities alleging some of them were behind bars when they used their relief money to post bond and free themselves from jail

The Independent UK

‘My children saved my life’: the terrifying toll of a political scandal in South Korea

Exclusive: Dongyoun Cho, who resigned from politics after a storm over painful details from her private life, speaks out about sexism, suicide and social change

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Michael Hiltzik: GOP ratchets up the hypocrisy in opposing Biden's student debt plan

The hypocrisy meter has been stuck at the high end as Republicans and conservatives fill the airwaves and social media to decry President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness proposal.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Not very PPProgressive: Lessons learned from PPP loans that went mostly to the rich

As the pandemic forced widespread closures in 2020, federal policymakers were staring down a torrent of job losses. Millions of workers were being laid off from businesses large and small, and millions more would lose their jobs with every passing week, causing indelible long-term damage to their financial picture and…

The Times of India

Haryana govt committed to uplift every family and raise economic level of last person standing in line: CM Manohar Lal Khattar

CHANDIGARH: Haryana government on Monday claimed to have prepared a comprehensive action plan under which education, health, all-round development and welfare of every citizen will be ensured with emphasis on security, self-respect and self-reliance.

Salon

Greene tells Biden to "go to hell"

Greene lashed out after the reveal from the White House that she had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven

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PPP co-author Marco Rubio fires back at White House Twitter drag

Marco Rubio isn’t taking White House criticism lying down.

The Guardian - US

‘This you?’: the seven letters exposing rightwing hypocrisy on student debt relief

As Biden eases student loan debt for millions, a simple phrase is puncturing criticism from conservatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene

Axios

White House claps back at MTG and other GOP lawmakers calling student loan plan unfair

"Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven," the White House tweeted.

Salon

White House dunks on GOP's PPP loans

Conservative complaints about student loan relief are being met with reminders of prior PPP loan forgiveness

The Independent UK

White House trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene for student loan criticism: ‘She had $183k in PPP loans repaid’

White House called out multiple GOP leaders for criticising student debt plan after taking government loan forgiveness during pandemic

Reuters

Oil money is flooding into Guyana. Who will benefit?

Ever since Exxon Mobil found vast deposits of oil off Guyana's coastline in 2015, government leaders have pledged that black gold would transform the fortunes of one of South America's poorest countries.

Salon

GOPer cashes in on COVID aid she trashed

Monica De La Cruz runs on a campaign against runaway spending and “socialist” policies

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