SF News FiDi Restaurant Owners Accused of Using Pandemic Relief Funds to Flip Houses A husband and wife who ran a now defunct SF Financial District lunch spot have been indicted by the feds for improperly using pandemic relief funds for personal expenses, and allegedly laundering a large portion of the money through house flips.
SF News California Man Gets 11 Years In Federal Clink For $27 Million PPP Loan Fraud Scheme A Southern California man who fraudulently claimed to need pandemic assistance for hundreds of fictional employees has just been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
SF News Oakland Woman Who Spent PPP Loans On Louis Vuitton Bags and Private Jets Gets Three Years In Federal Prison A 32-year-old Oakland woman who was arrested and charged last year in a scheme to defraud the federal government out of $4.5 million in pandemic relief funds has just been sentenced to three years in prison and will have to pay over $1 million in restitution.
SF News SF Catholic Churches Pulled in Huge PPP Loans While Flouting Public Health Restrictions The Archdiocese of SF’s nearly $2 million PPP loan is just one of many that have gone to churches across the state who have openly defied restrictions and hosted superspreader events.
