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03/28/2025
PPP fraud among 41 Illinois employees is pegged at more than $900,000
Chicago Sun Times
An Illinois mental health worker claimed she was an author who had made $115,000 selling books in 2020 before her side business cratered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A state correctional sergeant at Stateville prison claimed he ran a private security company on the side that brought in $100,000 in 2019 and also was hit hard by the pandemic the next year.
Now, both have been forced to resign, among 41 state employees listed in reports by the Illinois Office of Executive Inspector General as having defrauded the federal Paycheck Protection Program designed to bail out ailing businesses during the pandemic.
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