The Department of Justice has announced the arrest of a Florida man in connection with Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud. David T. Hines, 29, of Miami, Florida, was arrested and charged with fraudulently obtaining $3.9 million in PPP loans and using those funds, in part, to purchase a 2020 Lamborghini Huracan sports car. Authorities seized the…
If you follow me on Twitter, you’d know that our law firm didn’t take out a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. But if we had, you might soon know the details – down to how much money we had received: Treasury and the Small Business Administration (SBA) have agreed with the bipartisan leaders of the U.S. Senate…
It appears that two New England businessmen took the concept of “free money” way too far. David A. Staveley (a/k/a Kurt D. Sanborn) of Andover, Massachusetts, and David Butziger of Warwick, Rhode Island, have been accused of conspiring to illegally obtain funds through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The PPP offers billions of dollars in potentially forgivable loans…
Last week, my firm received mail from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) advising that their records showed that no payroll tax returns had been filed on behalf of a certain corporate client which I recognized as now defunct. The company never had employees and now, clearly, it never will. The next day, I received a similar…