City watchdog investigating whether as many as 1,000 PPP loans received by city employees were fraudulent
In the first of what could be a flood of fraud findings, Chicago’s inspector general has concluded a worker at the Department of Streets and Sanitation received a federal Payroll Protection Program loan “for a fictitious hair salon business.” Friday’s quarterly report from Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said the finding was the first of a “large scale” investigation into whether city ...