Jailed crooks told to cough up $600k for COVID fraud

Two Florida residents will spend years behind bars and pay more than half a million dollars for wire fraud and identity theft, among other illicit deeds, for running COVID-19 scams. US District Judge William Jung on Friday sentenced Randy Xavier Jones, a 34-year-old man of Sarasota, Florida, to five years and one month in …

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15% of Paycheck Protection Program Loans Could Be Fraudulent, Study Shows

And that's only the "fraud" frauds, not the "re-classify everyone of your chain of 1000s of restaurants as a separate small business so they each qualify for the full amount" not-at-all-fraud