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The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a federal pandemic business relief loan, according to a report released Tuesday. The specifics of the alleged fraud likely won’t be known until reports on those cases are issued, a process than can take months. ...

The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a federal

To date, the vast majority of the founded cases — 132 — have been among employees at the state Department of Human Services.

At Ludeman Developmental Center in Park Forest, 37 employees have been fired, resigned or face pending disciplinary action after a state watchdog found that they defrauded a federal pandemic-era small business loan program. The employees who work at the state-run developmental center in south suburban Cook County include 32 mental health technicians — about 6

A St. Louis Park native lost everything during the Maui fires except the clothes he was wearing, with the fire forever changing his life.