You'd think it would be easy to give away billions of dollars for disaster relief, but hundreds of thousands of Californians ...

The U.S. Secret Service says nearly $100 billion has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. The staggering sum ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office says the membership club falsely certified its eligibility for pandemic relief funds.

On Wednesday, a judge sentenced Ethan Page, 52, of Kekaha to 14 months behind bars, followed by three years of supervised ...

Prosecutors said Marcus Eichelberger's case may be linked to prosecutions of two people supposedly approached by a pastor ...

President Joe Biden signed a pair of bills to assist prosecutors' crackdown on pandemic relief frauds. The PPP and Bank Fraud Enforcement Harmonization Act of 2022 and the COVID-19 EIDL Fraud Statute ...

A federal indictment accused four business owners from Will, Cook and DuPage counties of fraudulently obtaining about $2.8 million from COVID-19 pandemic relief programs. The indictment against the ...

The Middle Class Tax Refund (MCTR) was a one‑time state payment to Californians between October 2022 and January 2023.