• Willoughby man indicted on COVID-19 relief fraud charges

    A Willoughby man has been charged by a federal grand jury in Cleveland on a 13-count indictment along with a Medina man for their alleged roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $4.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds According to a Department of Justice news release, 61-year-old Edward Oluwasanmi of Willoughby and 61-year-old Joseph […]

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    Slidell woman pleads guilty to misappropriation of $780K COVID-19 relief funds

    A Slidell woman pled guilty to theft and misappropriation of COVID-19 Relief funds on Wednesday, April 10.

  • Cincinnati Woman Sentenced to 84 Months in Prison for COVID-19 Relief Fraud

    CINCINNATI – Kelli Prather, a 52-year-old Cincinnati resident, received an 84-month prison sentence today in U.S. District Court after being convicted last summer on multiple counts of fraud, announced authorities. Prather was found guilty on all 14 charges in July 2023 following a trial presided over by U.S. District Judge Matthew W. McFarland. The convictions […]

  • Column: Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes

    You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...

  • White House Announces Billions More in Student Debt Relief

    The White House on Friday announced it will cancel another $7.4 billion in student loan debt, the latest in a string of loan forgiveness initiatives as President Joe Biden looks to take on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this fall.

  • Biden proposes new student-debt relief. Here's who would benefit

    After months of hearings and negotiations, the Biden administration announced its latest plans Monday for student debt relief, proposing changes that would save about 30 million borrowers billions of dollars in total. The plans aren't as sweeping as the across-the-board loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 per borrower that Biden ordered in 2022, a measure the Supreme Court threw out last year. But they go further than what the administration proposed in the wake of the justices' ruling, offering...

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    CDC Redacted Study on Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination?

    The redacted document, released as part of a FOIA request, was not a study.

  • Three reasons Biden’s attack on COVID relief is disingenuous

    President Joe Biden, through the White House X account, is attacking as hypocrites recipients of federal COVID aid who now oppose his steps to wipe out student debt of former college students. These attacks, targeted at beneficiaries of the Paycheck Protection Program, are either ignorant or dishonest, but Biden has been making them for years. […]

  • Popular Paper On Ivermectin And COVID-19 Contains False Information

    Popular Paper On Ivermectin And COVID-19 Contains False Information Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A popular study that claims ivermectin has shown no effectiveness against all-cause mortality contains false information but remains uncorrected. The meta-analysis, published in 2021 by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, explores how groups in randomized, controlled trials fared after receiving ivermectin compared to control groups. Among...

  • Nevada parolee sentenced in Oregon for COVID relief fund fraud

    (The Center Square) - A Nevada man with a long criminal record received a federal prison sentence this week for stealing more than $163,000 in coronavirus relief program funds while on supervised release for two different state criminal convictions. Justin David Goulet, a 36-year-old from Las Vegas, Nevada, received a 27-month federal prison sentence plus three years’ supervised release. He must also pay $163,100 in restitution to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA),...

  • Biden promotes ‘life-changing’ student loan relief in Wisconsin

    MADISON, Wis. >> President Joe Biden said today that more than 30 million borrowers would see “life-changing” relief from his new plan to ease their student loan debt burdens, a fresh attempt by the Democratic president to follow through on a campaign pledge that could buoy his standing with younger voters.

  • Biden announces more student loan relief plans in battleground Wisconsin

    President Biden announced new student debt forgiveness plans in battleground Wisconsin on Monday that could impact over 30 million Americans if implemented.