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Feb. 3, 2025 ¡ª Patrick Strauss of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 48 months of probation ¨C including six months of home confinement to be followed by a period of intermittent incarceration, that is, 26 weekends in jail ¨C and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $304,900 and fined $8,784, all for participating in a conspiracy that fraudulently obtained more than $304,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans.

August 2, 2022 ¡ª A Corona man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges in connection with a scheme to submit false loan applications that brought him more than $6.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) funds.

Oct. 2, 2024 ¡ª Federal and local law enforcement have arrested 42 members and associates of the SFV Peckerwoods, a San Fernando Valley-based white supremacist street gang, on a 76-count federal grand jury indictment alleging they engaged in a years-long pattern of racketeering activity that included trafficking of drugs ¨C including fentanyl ¨C illegal firearms possession, and COVID-19 benefits and loan fraud, the Justice Department announced today.

November 1, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted the mayor of Riverdale, Ill. for allegedly lying under oath in a civil deposition and corruptly obstructing a lawsuit that claimed the mayor retaliated against a former city vendor.

October 6, 2023 ¡ª A customs broker has been arrested on a superseding grand jury indictment that alleges he defrauded clients out of $2 million while he was free on bond after being charged with bilking another client out of $3.4 million, the Justice Department announced today.

Dec. 16, 2024 ¡ª A physician who worked for an Inland Empire medical company has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud California¡¯s workers¡¯ compensation fund of millions of dollars by continuing to work on workers¡¯ compensation matters after being suspended due to a prior health care fraud conviction, the Justice Department announced today.

March 21, 2025 ¡ª Two brothers from Sedona, Arizona, pleaded guilty for conspiring with one another and others to defraud the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) out of nearly $109 million in loans intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

November 14, 2022 ¡ª A Corona man was sentenced today to 102 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $6.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) funds intended for business owners impacted by the economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and then laundering his illegal proceeds into financial instruments and real property in Pakistan.

IR-2024-169, June 20, 2024 ¡ª Following a detailed review to protect taxpayers and small businesses, the Internal Revenue Service today announced plans to deny tens of thousands of improper high-risk Employee Retention Credit claims while starting a new round of processing lower-risk claims to help eligible taxpayers.

March 9, 2023 ¡ª The former founder and chief executive of the local nonprofit Violence in Boston (VIB) and her husband, also a former founding director of the organization, have been charged in a superseding indictment today charging additional schemes to defraud the City of Boston out of COVID-19 relief funds and rental assistance money.