The Department of Justice will begin handling claims of a Columbia businessman misusing a pandemic-era relief plan -- an ...

45-year-old Rena Barrett of Covington admitted to making false statements on loans worth more than $550,000. Barret worked for the Small Business Administration but resigned after her fraud was ...

We have received text from H.R. 4495: SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act. This bill was received on 2025-07-17, and currently has 1 cosponsor. Here is a short summary of the bill: The SBA Fraud ...

Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler is working to reverse what she describes as years of mismanagement within the agency and steer it back toward serving small businesses ...

ATLANTA — A former Small Business Administration loan officer and two others pleaded guilty in pandemic fraud cases, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.

Federal law enforcement authorities have charged 57 people with stealing $175 million from an aid program meant to help small businesses weather pandemic lockdowns, officials said on Thursday, adding ...

The SBA inspector general says "lowered guardrails" left the program vulnerable. At the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, when offices and restaurants began shuttering, the federal government scrambled ...