SBA halts grants to Minnesota in wake of fraud scandal

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Source: The Hill

12/29/25 5:37 PM ET


Small Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler said Monday that her department is halting annual grants to Minnesota, amid an investigation into alleged fraud in COVID-era lending programs.

Loeffler said on the social platform X that the SBA is pausing yearly funding to Minnesota “while we investigate $430 million in suspected [Paycheck Protection Program] fraud across the state.”

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was established by the 2020 CARES Act, which passed Congress and was signed into law by President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The House Committee on Small Business has launched a probe into “fraud and concealment” within the PPP and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, also formed during the pandemic. Loeffler sent a letter last week to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) outlining at least $2.5 million in PPP and EIDL loans sent to individuals indicted as part of a wide-ranging investigation into fraud involving Minnesota’s social services programs.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5665860-sba-halts-grants-minnesota-fraud/

[SalamanderSleeps]

1. "They know not what they do."

"It is finished."

Cock suckers gonna suck.

Is anyone surprised?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

2. So when will they be withholding moneys to Texas...

... if fraud suspicions are grounds?

"Texas Business Owner Sentenced for COVID-19 Relief Fraud"

"According to court documents, between around May 2020, and March 2021, Shantelle Hawkins, 43, of DeSoto, conspired to submit 17 fraudulent PPP loan applications on behalf of companies she or her relatives owned or controlled. The applications contained false statements about payroll and tax information, which the SBA used to calculate the amount of PPP funds to which the applicant-companies would be entitled. Hawkins used some of the money she obtained from the loans for personal expenses, including to pay off her 2015 Maserati Ghibli luxury car and to purchase property in the greater Dallas area."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-business-owner-sentenced-covid-19-relief-fraud

[wolfie001]

4. tRUMPS DEI pro-white racism is official policy at this point nt

[wolfie001]

3. Loeffler's the WNBA owner who's own players hated her

She's an affirmed racist who criticized Black Live's Matter. Wealthy entitled pig. Here's her with her old-ass billionaire "hubby" Looks like a dated picture so he may be rotting in a nursing home or hopefully 6-feet under.

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[IthinkThereforeIAM]

7. Glad you brought that up...

... one of the first things that comes to mind for me when her name is mentioned.

[wolfie001]

8. Thank you!

I recognized that last name. Cheers

[travelingthrulife]

5. Wonder how much Kelly Loeffler took out of that program? All the greedy rich

took tons of those loans.

[GiqueCee]

6. Excuse me, but...

... didn't Marjorie "Three-Toes" Greene scam millions by abusing that program?