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SBA won't try to claw back $155 million in controversial COVID grants to celebrities
Insider via Yahoo ^ | 2-21-25 | Jack Newsham

Posted on 02/23/2025 6:35:36 AM PST by Strict9

Lil Wayne and other artists took millions for luxury clothes and private jets. Congress set aside more than $14 billion during the pandemic to bail out struggling arts groups as audiences stayed home. Business Insider previously reported Lil Wayne, Marshmello, Chris Brown,

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TOPICS: Education; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: covid; rap
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It reminds me of the children’s book-“ If you Give a Mouse a Cookie.” If you give Lil’ Wayne 4 million dollars, Lil’ Wayne gonna spends it on Lil’ Wayne.
1 posted on 02/23/2025 6:35:36 AM PST by Strict9
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...Congress set aside more than $14 billion during the pandemic to bail out struggling arts groups...
2 posted on 02/23/2025 6:38:51 AM PST by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: Strict9

I want to say Lil Wayne was on a season of Celebrity Apprentice.


3 posted on 02/23/2025 6:39:17 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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nothing is goofier than covering your face with tattoos- it’s like that Post Malone fool


4 posted on 02/23/2025 6:42:41 AM PST by Strict9
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I guess Lil Wayne is a struggling arts group and needed $4M.


5 posted on 02/23/2025 6:43:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Strict9

Why? Do they see stars when they deal with “celebrities”?


6 posted on 02/23/2025 6:43:21 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cartel Human Smuggling Into America IS NOT Immigration. It's a crime.)
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To: Strict9

Rather than spend endless time and money “clawing back” money, the best course is to just destroy the recipient. Metaphorically, just kill them off.


7 posted on 02/23/2025 6:43:47 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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cases closed by whom?

closed cases can be reopened when time allows and new evidence.


8 posted on 02/23/2025 6:44:48 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Most Americans are star struck, just like simple-minded teen agers...and never outgrow it


9 posted on 02/23/2025 6:46:20 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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Let them learn to code and find real jobs.


10 posted on 02/23/2025 6:50:41 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Lil’ Wayne gonna be codin’ and sh&$


11 posted on 02/23/2025 6:52:02 AM PST by Strict9
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Then he can pick crops.


12 posted on 02/23/2025 6:53:01 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: bert

Agree, Just name the people who received these Grants


13 posted on 02/23/2025 6:58:37 AM PST by oldasrocks
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I’m so happy for these rich celebrities!! The SBA grant I got after losing everything in a wildfire was paid off in cash from my savings to replace my home. Now they take part of my social security checks every month to repay interest.


14 posted on 02/23/2025 7:02:25 AM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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Recall that the lockdowns were ineffective in preventing the spread of the virus. The COVID relief money was a complete waste. Damn all those guilty of spreading the hysteria.


15 posted on 02/23/2025 7:09:51 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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He’s a closet MAGA who writes about gun rights, free speech, and distrust of big government. It takes all types to win back a nation.


16 posted on 02/23/2025 7:16:30 AM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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“In a December 20 email released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, an SBA employee said more than $155 million out of $216.6 million in grants paid out to NKSFB clients — or more than 70% of them — were “closed,” meaning that they have been fully reviewed. That leaves about $61 million across 22 grants that could still be under review.”

Surely the alleged crimes aren’t past the statute of limitations are they? We know Biden, et al, wouldn’t do anything (unless they were Republicans/conservatives), but what’s stopping Bondi from nvestigating/prosecuting?

“Nobody is above the law” we heard for eight years . . .


17 posted on 02/23/2025 7:35:28 AM PST by MCSETots
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I never heard of any of them except Brown and don’t know his music. Go check out more goofier Marshmello who apparently wears a dead marshmallow on his head. Apparently, the more freakish you look, the more $$$ you get.


18 posted on 02/23/2025 7:37:08 AM PST by bgill
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But if you overpay a veteran or an old person on social security, you garnish their future earnings until paid - regardless of how harmful it is to the innocent veteran/social security recipient.

Two tier system. The powerful get protection, the helpless are always victimized.


19 posted on 02/23/2025 7:47:25 AM PST by EdgeOfDarkness (EdgeOfDarkness)
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"...artists took millions for luxury clothes and private jets."

Not trying to sway the reader much there, huh, Jack?

Even though I agree with the overall message of the article, I really hate the sad state of "journalism" today.

20 posted on 02/23/2025 7:49:50 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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