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Updated at 8:27 p.m. ET Omni Hotels & Resorts, the international luxury hotel chain owned by billionaire Robert B. Rowling, is being accused of misusing millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funds meant to keep workers on payroll. The Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh is one of a number of hotels in the Omni Hotels & Resorts chain that accepted federal Paycheck Protection Program funds but did not use them to pay workers. Bill O'Driscoll / WESA Unite Here, a service workers union with more than 300,000 members in North America, said several Omni hotels where it represents worker...

Paycheck Protection Program funds never reached these hospitality workers A hospitality workers’ union says Pittsburgh’s landmark Omni William Penn Hotel improperly used a federal pandemic-relief program meant to keep workers on the payroll. The luxury Downtown hotel shut down in March, after the coronavirus pandemic struck, crippling the hospitality industry. The William Penn applied for a $3.56 million loan from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, through Affiliated Bank. PPP loans were meant to cover payrolls for up to eight weeks. They can be forgiven if 60% of the money ...