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Posted on 12/30/2025 2:03:47 AM PST by texas booster
Illinois just gained another data point for its reputation for public corruption. New revelations found that nearly 400 state employees improperly obtained federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans intended to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic.
PPP was created as part of the CARES Act to provide federally backed, forgivable loans to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was signed into law on March 27, 2020.
According to the Illinois Office of the Executive Inspector General, investigators found “reasonable cause” in 378 PPP-fraud cases involving state workers through June 2025 — about three-quarters of all cases reviewed, the Chicago Tribune reported. More than 200 employees resigned or were fired, and some have been referred for criminal prosecution. Workers across major agencies — including Human Services, Corrections, and Children and Family Services — collectively received over $2.8 million in fraudulent loans, often using fabricated businesses or false income claims.
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The problem extended beyond the state government. Cook County watchdogs documented 65 PPP-related findings, most resulting in resignations or firings. The Cook County sheriff’s office reviewed 163 cases, sustaining violations against 62 employees. Chicago’s inspector general initially flagged nearly 1,000 potentially problematic loans involving city staff and has so far found nine substantiated cases, with more investigations ongoing. ...
Word gets around, you know.
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were
intended to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic.
<><>PPP was created as part of the CARES Act to provide forgivable loans to small businesses
<><>signed into law on March 27, 2020.
<><>378 PPP-fraud cases involved Ill state workers through June 2025 —
<><>More than 200 employees resigned or were fired,
<><>some have been referred for criminal prosecution.
Workers across major agencies — including Human Services, Corrections, and Children and Family Services — collectively received over $2.8 million in fraudulent loans, often using fabricated businesses or false income claims. Read more at dailywire.com ...
Some people did something.
Will anyone be arrested?
DEMOCRATS ARE CROOKS AND LIARS!
If the numbers in the article are accurate that averages out to about $7K for each ppp loan. Those people aren’t very bright. They got fired from a well paying job with benefits over a lousy $7K.
Those PPP fraudsters people aren’t very bright. They got
fired from a well paying job with benefits over a lousy $7K.
LOL......good one.
Yet, I dont think we have the whole story on the extent of the fraud.
The first bunch of named crooks…
Tyrone
DeShawn
Quaylon
Shaquarius
Laquisha
Jamarius
Tyshawn
LaDarius
Keshawn
Rakim
Jontavious
Tylan
Shanique
Lamarcus
Tamera
Tyreece
Trevonte
Tyra
Quanisha
Here is more from the Chicago Tribune. With the numbers bounced around in the article, the fraud had to be much more than $2.8M.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/29/ppp-loan-fraud-illinois-cook-county/
Don’t forget La-sha (pronounced La dash a).
Why is it always “implicated”, and almost never “indicted”?
Walz, Omar, Ellison, and the rest have been “implicated” in the MN fraud cases, but around 70 low-level operatives have been indicted.
I suggest that Walz, Omar, and Ellison (and a host of others) need to be indicted, the sooner the better.
Even fewer times “tried, convicted and incarcerated.”.
Down payment on a new car?
Oprah's show was taped in Chicago... hmmmm
“Oprah’s show was taped in Chicago... hmmmm”
Hillary was from Chicago.
Michelle was from Chicago.
Obama got his start in Illinois.
That is a good guess or maybe a cruise ship vacation..
Public workers are the first to know where all the full tills are at must be an entitlement issue?.
Just when might some of these integrity-free criminal losers be placed into prison for their crimes? Waiting...
Excellent point.....nails it.
Thx......had to be much more stolen w/ that many in on it.
Not sure they may know the right people who pull the right strings.
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