PPP Fraud Update

Frank Main is still writing for the Slum Times?

• Five Cook County employees defrauded the federal COVID-19 relief program of more than $240,000, falsely claiming they owned companies that struggled during the pandemic, the county inspector general’s office said in a report Friday.

  Over the past year, 20 other county workers also were suspected of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program, accoring to interim Inspector General Steven Cyranoski. They include three high-ranking county officials, including one in the county’s human resources office, a payroll supervisor in the comptroller’s office and a director in the health department, according to Cyranoski.

  In five quarterly reports since July 2022, Cyranoski said his investigators found county workers were suspected of stealing more than $700,000 in PPP money.

  He recommended that each be fired. All have been fired or resigned or are in the process of being terminated, Cyranoski said. None was identified in his reports by name.
  

So the Cook county Inspector General is going after the fraudsters, but he won't name them? We guess that's in case those people need other County jobs. After all, Friends of Prickwrinkle need to be taken care of - those votes won't generate themselves.