A new bill would give prosecutors 10 years to bring fraud charges over a pandemic program that paid pop stars millions

• 02/02/2025, 7:03 AM
• businessinsider.com

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Congress responded to the pandemic by pumping trillions of dollars into the economy with an alphabet soup of assistance programs: PPP, PUA, EIDL, EIPs and ERCs. Fraud was rampant, and the government lost an estimated $300 billion.