The sentence comes after Mehlbaurer pleaded guilty on Sept. 24, 2025, to wire fraud and money laundering. Lopez was sentenced to time served. According to court documents, Mehlbauer and Lopez ...

The management company of the LaFontaine Automotive Group in Metro Detroit has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle an ...

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

Refrigeration services company The Articom Group LLC and others won dismissal of a False Claims Act suit alleging fraud under the Covid-19 pandemic Paycheck Protection Program, but they didn’t show ...

Here's how a Brockton Veterans Affairs nursing assistant fraudulently obtained a COVID relief loan for more than $20,000.

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 ...

House committee demands answers on alleged Minnesota pandemic fraud totaling up to $9 billion, targeting SBA relief programs ...

An entity of the statewide LaFontaine Automotive Group allegedly obtained a $1 million Paycheck Protection Program grant during the COVID-19 pandemic that the business was not eligible to receive.

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.

A 33-year-old woman was sentenced on charges related to fraudulently obtaining over $1 million in federal loans intended to ...