Posted on 08/20/2025 9:57:32 PM PDT by 11th_VA
BALTIMORE — Thousands of businesses applied for assistance following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse with nearly half being rideshare and taxi services, followed by trucking companies and restaurants. But Relentless Management Group LLC, a business management firm for athletes and entertainers, received nearly $1 million in taxpayer funds - the second-highest amount among all applicants. Despite attempts to understand how the Key Bridge disaster impacted this business enough to warrant substantial taxpayer support, the managing partner did not respond...
WMAR-2 News Mallory Sofastaii traveled to Hyattsville, Maryland, about 40 miles from the Key Bridge, to the address listed on the small business loan application. No one answered, and no one responded to numerous calls and emails.
She then visited an address tied to the business loan applicant, Kibwe Jabar (K.J.) Hughes. A woman answered but claimed no knowledge of the loan.
"I don't know anything. I'm just here to take care of the house, so I would not know," she said when asked about the $995,000 SBA loan.
Public records show Relentless Management Group's business license was forfeited by the state comptroller in October - two months after receiving the SBA loan. Records also show K.J. Hughes has outstanding federal tax liens exceeding $1 million, some dating to 2016.
When asked if tax liens affect loan eligibility, the SBA said they "don't discourage anyone from applying" and that loan officers request information then make determinations...
(Excerpt) Read more at wmar2news.com ...
SBA corruption? Kickbacks?
More rotten imported garbage culture.
Everybody get some!
I think we know what the primary business function of RLM is. “Relentless,” indeed.
Entertainer managers?? Sounds very nuanced…
Soros people needed their take.
Let me guess. They represented a Led Zeppelin cover band who sang “…Have you seen the bridge? Where’s that confounded bridge?”
Hyattsville???
There aren’t any businesses in Hyattsville that aren’t owned and operated by gangsters...
You have to wonder what Democratic politician got money out of this.
“Relentless Management Group” is cashing in on the backs of
taxpayers bigtime grabbing federal disaster funds, including:
<><>$794,259 from the “Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program” a COVID handout,
<><>$318,222 in Covid Paycheck Protection Program “loans that were forgiven,”
<><>a $2 million SBA disaster loan in 2022
<><>and the $995,000 SBA Key Bridge “loan.”
Kibwe Hughes is connected with 5 companies according to bizapedia.
https://www.bizapedia.com/pro-search.aspx?id=b&prlbdi=107935
Did any of these Kibwe companies receive tax dollars?
When the government teat comes out, even the rats come to feast on what’s dropped by the gorging piglets.
So much sociopathic corruption...so little time.
Pingerooni! Talk about yer “Freak State” grift…
Congress was the original GoFundMe page. Everybody gets free money.
Sargent Schultz...?
It’s as if having a a foreign sounding name magically gets people approved to receive grants courtesy of the American taxpayer.
Part of the deep state Cloward Piven strategy i guess.
I bet Kibwe Hughes has some interesting political connections? too.
The SBA seems to be the domestic version of USAID. Major investigations, prosecutions, reforms needed.
bet Kibwe Hughes has some interesting political connections? too. The SBA seems to be the domestic version of USAID. Major investigations, prosecutions, reforms needed.
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