‘The more you submit, the more we get paid’: How fintech fueled covid aid fraud
wapoSEP 2022
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Through diligent reporting by several journalistic outlets and effective government oversight, these horrendous PPP frauds are being exposed. These investigations could go a long way toward the DOJ holding fintechs accountable and could even lead to recouping some of the ill-gotten funds.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) should get just as much flack as the fintechs. The SBA helped create the inflation crisis in the US by failing to build safeguards to prevent such fraud, leading to the needless distribution of billions of dollars. This is what happens when the federal government rushes to "put money out on the street."