A mother and daughter from Mount Vernon, New York, have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to COVID relief fraud.
DRACUT — The School Department likely will use $750,000 in unexpended COVID relief funds as a one-time fix to cover at least some of its share of the town’s fiscal 2025 budget deficit.
Before she ran for Congress, Sue Altman (D., N.J.) wanted illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded COVID relief funds. Now, Altman says it’s Republicans' fault that the border crisis—which has exploded during President Joe Biden’s administration—hasn’t been solved.
Prosecutors say the seven stole more than $40m from a program meant to provide meals to children in MinnesotaOpening statements are expected on Monday in the fraud trial of seven people charged in what federal prosecutors have called a massive scheme to exploit lax rules during the Covid-19 pandemic and steal from a program meant to provide meals to children in Minnesota.The seven will be the first of 70 defendants to go on trial in the alleged scam. Eighteen others have already pleaded guilty....
A mother-daughter duo has been sentenced to prison for defrauding the government of approximately $1.7 million. Westchester County residents Alicia Ayers and her mother, Andrea Ayers, both of Mount Vernon, were found guilty of submitting more than 300 fraudulent applications for US Small Business Administration Economic Injury Disaster Loans. Andrea Ayers was a former Code Enforcement Officer for the City of Mount Vernon Police Department. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress...
(The Center Square) - Oregon will seek federal semiconductor research and development funds to create a National Semiconductor Technology Center affiliated technical center. “With our existing workforce hub in Washington County and a robust semiconductor manufacturing and exporting industry, Oregon has set a strong foundation as a decades-long national center of research and development,” Governor Tina Kotek said in a statement. “With support from industry...
Disaster relief funds: The Centre orders release of ₹3,730.32 crore towards “relief assistance for natural calamity” from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF).
Happy Tuesday! The government is working with SBI Card and telecom companies to tackle the menace of OTP-based online payment frauds. More on this in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ WeWork to sell 27% stake in India unit■ Europe is a hotspot for Indian IT M&As■ Peak XV MD to leave VC fund Centre, SBI Card, telcos come together to tackle OTP frauds 109515406The government has teamed up with SBI Card, the credit card business of State Bank of India and telecom...
Embattled Toronto-based documentary organisation Hot Docs has criticised the Canadian government for not providing it with funding in this week’s federal budget. In a statement issued on Thursday, no
(The Center Square) - California’s unemployment insurance fund is “structurally insolvent” due to $55 billion in fraud and overpayment during COVID-19 crisis, leading to a growing $21 billion unemployment benefits loan from the federal government the state is unable to pay down. While the state seeks loan forgiveness from the Acting United States Secretary of Labor, who was California’s Secretary of Labor during the COVID-19 era and oversaw the state’s fraudulent payments —...
An Oregon man who was convicted in the 1978 killing of a 16-year-old girl in Alaska was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison. Donald McQuade, 67, told Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson that he maintains his innocence and did not kill Shelley Connolly, the Anchorage Daily News reported. McQuade in December was convicted of murder in the death of Connolly, whose body was found near a highway pullout between Anchorage and Girdwood in 1978. OREGON MAN ARRESTED IN 1978 COLD-CASE MURDER OF ALASKA...
(The Center Square) - The part of the federal government which handles forestry, inside the part of the government that handles agriculture is funding local efforts in Oregon that are more associated with the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education -- funding for rural roads and schools in Oregon. Thirty Oregon counties will get over $47.7 million in federal funding under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act. It will...