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In Chicago, the price of illegal guns soared during the pandemic, but gangs were able to pay for them with fraudulent PPP and other COVID-19 relief money, agents say.

They got Capone on tax evasion, and now federal prosecutors have managed to bust up a Louisiana street gang by charging two dozen people with pandemic benefit fraud.

The pandemic relief was the biggest bailout in history, and it opened the door to wide-scale fraud the likes of which no one had ever seen — more than three years later, we still don't know how much damage was done

Billions in U.S. COVID relief was lost to fraud and we still don't know how much damage was done

Rapper Nuke Bizzle is asking for leniency in an alleged covid relief fraud case by claiming that many other people were doing the same thing.

To hear Nuke Bizzle's version of events, he never really had much choice but to grab as much pandemic cash as he could steal.

To hear Nuke Bizzle's version of events, he never really had much choice but to grab as much pandemic cash as he could steal.

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A rapper who boasted in a YouTube music video about getting rich from committing unemployment benefits fraud has agreed to plead guilty in Los Angeles to...

A rapper who boasted in a YouTube music video about getting rich from committing unemployment benefits fraud has agreed to plead guilty in Los Angeles to federal fraud and firearms charges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.