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US DOJ Charges 14 With $28M In PPP Fraud

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District Court for the Southern District of Florida with wire and bank fraud and conspiracy for seeking $24 million in forgivable PPP loans. The accused include Darrell Thomas, 34, of Johns Creek, Georgia; Andre Lee Gaines, 66, of Dallas, Georgia; Kahlil Gibran Green Sr., In Florida, nine defendants have been charged in the U.S

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Feds Charge Texas Man With CARES Act Fraud

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8) charged a Dallas-area man with allegedly playing a role in a scheme that sought to fraudulently obtain $24.8 Dinesh Sah, 55, of Coppell, Texas, was charged with three counts of wire fraud, three counts of bank fraud and one count of money laundering. Federal prosecutors on Thursday (Oct. million in PPP loans.

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Email Scam Victim Sues Bank Claiming Lack Of Fraud Protection

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Krasovec is now suing the Dallas, Texas bank, maintaining that PlainsCapital didn’t have anti-fraud protocols in place. subsidiary of Japan’s largest financial media organization, was the victim of a $29 million wire transfer fraud. It could be anybody.”. In November , Nikkei, the U.S.

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Texas Hotelier Nets $59M In PPP Loans

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The biggest benefactor of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a Dallas, Texas-based hotelier named Monty Bennett, who has received $59 million from the program intended to help small or medium-sized businesses with the economic crisis.

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Former Dallas FHLB execs sentenced to prison on fraud charges

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Two former officials were sentenced to five years each for falsifying travel expenses and lying to authorities.

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Upcoming Tell-All Book Questions Uber’s Fee Structure

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General and Administrative Hub in Dallas. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi noted that “Dallas became the first city in Texas where the Uber app was available in 2012, and since then Texas has been a hub of innovation for our platform. Greg Abbott announced that Uber will receive $24 million from the state to establish a new U.S.

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MoneyGram To Settle With FTC For $125M

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According to the FTC , the company violated the settlement struck in 2012 that stemmed from charges that the company had aided and abetted wire fraud. Court documents stated that the revised fraud prevention system that was put in place after the settlement was ineffective. This announcement came separately on Thursday.

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