{"id":121629,"date":"2023-06-27T17:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121629"},"modified":"2023-06-27T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T22:30:39","slug":"reuters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121629","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Over $200 billion likely stolen from U.S. COVID relief programs, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Over $200 billion from the U.S. government&#8217;s COVID-19 relief programs were likely stolen, a federal watchdog said on Tuesday, adding that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) had weakened its controls in a rush to disburse the funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">At least 17% of all funds related to the government&#8217;s coronavirus Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) schemes were disbursed to potentially fraudulent actors, according to a\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__large__nEccO link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3CRse9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"Link\">report released Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0by the SBA&#8217;s office of inspector general.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/over-200-billion-likely-stolen-us-covid-relief-programs-watchdog-says-2023-06-27\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over $200 billion likely stolen from U.S. COVID relief programs, watchdog says <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ipofUWaBm2\">https:\/\/t.co\/ipofUWaBm2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nt4CTgxDdA\">pic.twitter.com\/Nt4CTgxDdA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReutersPolitics\/status\/1673808572596072449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over $200 billion from the U.S. government&#8217;s COVID-19 relief programs were likely stolen, a federal watchdog said on Tuesday, adding that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) had weakened its controls in a rush to disburse the funds. At least<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121629\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,168,114,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121635,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121629\/revisions\/121635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}