Category: Small Business Administration
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Dozens of Broward Sheriff’s deputies face indictment in burgeoning PPP loan fraud case
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Update Oct. 12 – Broward Sheriff’s employees, including sworn deputies and civilians, began turning themselves in this morning to face impending federal fraud charges involving the theft of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of dollars in loans from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program. Dozens of BSO employees are expected to be…
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Conservancy rakes in cash at taxpayer-owned Miami Beach Botanical Garden
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org A non-profit group turned the Miami Beach Botanical Garden into a cash cow by obtaining federal pandemic aid funds and charging top dollar for hosting booze-filled events. But the Miami Beach Garden Conservancy fattened up its coffers without giving the city its fair share, and without contributing any money for maintenance…
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Feds flout church-state separation with millions in pandemic aid
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org The federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is subsidizing religious institutions in South Florida and elsewhere–despite the rule about separating church and state in a democracy.