Anyone Bored?
Here's a hobby for you if you have some hours to kill:
- (OT) coppers asking about tracking ppp loans here it is:
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/
Type in a name business
If it's run like other sites, you have to be very very specific when searching by name:
- middle initials, with or without (John Doe; John R Doe)
- middle initials with and without the period after (John R. Doe; John R Doe)
- apostrophes or spaces around the O ( O'Doe; O Doe; McDoe Mc Doe)
Addresses and zip codes might give you tens of dozens, even hundreds of names to look at. We're pretty sure this is how the aldercreature was spotted by some curious citizens.
We're curious as to how the various Inspector Generals got so many teachers and other government scammers.
Labels: from the comments, scandals
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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According to news stories IG's compared employee names and addresses to the various PPP databases. If you used a different address than your public employer has to get a PPP loan you may not have been discovered. If you misspelled your name or used a maiden name etc you might not have been identified.
Whole lot of common names out there.
Tip of the iceberg.
Either a preselected list of fall guys was provided, or whoever got tagged legitimately will, if connected, provide some side income to wiggle out of it.
If 1% of the guilty get to trial, to provide bullshit claims of addressing the problem, that other 99% snickers all the way to the bank.
I was disappointed I couldn't find Anthony Escamilla in there. Was almost positive that that scumbag would have pulled the scam for a loan for a Daycare buisness
You'll never take me alive coppers!
- - Your favorite thieving merit White Shirt.
LAWDOG SECURITY & INVESTIGATIONS INC
Loan Amount
$562,500
Hmm 🤔
That site doesn’t give you the addresses. This ones better.
https://data.sj-r.com/paycheck-protection-program-loans/
Or if you prefer the official datasets also with addresses here it is.
https://data.sba.gov/dataset/ppp-foia
Loving it………. <3
The CPS OIG reportedly went witch hunting on the highest salaried employees their upper management (aka CPS Law) wanted gone and they couldn't get rid of them any other way, so, the PPP loan fraud was their ticket. All but two of the 14 employees nailed were making over $100K and worked in positions other than in CPS schools.
So far, no teachers or support staff members have been nailed and those employees found not to have secondary employment approval from their principals were just told they needed them, no punishment.
A Steinmetz HS Clerk making $95,000. (Yes $95,000) was caught without the approval to run her N. Harlem Ave. esthetician side hustle since she opened in 2018. CPS just received her approval during the PPP loan fraud investigation in Feb 2023.
Crystal Cooper ($220K) was the big fish in the PPP loan fraud. CPS OIG cross referenced her name and others on the PPP loan search website along with checking bank deposits and tax records. Most of 12 received the loans for fake businesses and over inflated money lost from them. Tax records and a lack of state and city business licenses showed these businesses bever existed at all. (None of the 12 had secondary employment approval from CPS)
Cooper was part of the Aramark cleaning negotiations team for CPS and they're still not keeping schools clean. Cooper reported directly to current CEO Pedro Martinez in some high level position after being the Chief of Staff to the CEO (him).
(Cooper's predessor as Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO was Pedro Soto, Jr. He was nailed, DNH'd, and prosecuted for lying to the FBI in promising favors for a cleaning company CPS didn't choose for the contract. He got probation.)
Martinez found out about Cooper's PPP loan from a rat fellow co-worker of Cooper that was elevated to her position after she was terminated by CPS.
The question here is how does the CPS OIG have the jurisdiction to go after the loan fraudsters? These employees were defrauding the government not CPS.
This when the CPS OIG will not go after teachers reported to them (by anyone outside of principals and network chiefs) of lying to CPS about were they live with a majority of the residency violators getting homeowners exemptions on their primary suburban homes. Exemptions are easily found on the Cook County Assessor's search on their website or in other county's assessor's websites
North Grand HS teacher Brert Murphy was reported to the CPS OIG in 2010 of living in Wilmette during the lunch fraud investigation there and nothing had been done to him. When CPS OIG were told about Murphy by whistleblowers, they said "Oh him, we know about him."
Murphy is now living at a third Wilmette residence (apt.) while going through his divorce from his wife Karen Murphy (CFO of the Chicago Bears). They had moved from one $850K mini mansion near a golf course in Wilmette to another after he was first hired as a Chicago resident on N. Kenneth Ave.
Where did the current CPS OIG (S. William Fletcher) work after taking over for former CPD detective Nicholas Schuler (who did go after CPS Residency fraudsters)? Fletcher was the IG for the Chicago Park District. We all know how much fraud and hasn't been investigated by that office.
It's not hard at all to find CPS Residency violators.
1. Go to the Better Government Association's public salary search. There you'll find when CPS employees were hired and if hired before November 20, 1996, the employee can live wherever they choose. And after November 20, 1996, CPS employees are supposed to have residency waivers to live outside Chicago.
The CPS hire date is key here. All public info.
2. Google CPS employees' names and names of suburban or other city and states they might live in. There you'll most likely get addresses. Ex. Brett Murphy Wilmette IL shows a link to the blockshopper info for him and his wife Karen. All public info.
3. Take the address and key it into the Cook County Assessor's property search. Bang!!! You'll see multiple property rax appeals by the Murphys. All public info.
4. If you have Murphy's birthdate, even better as you can check out his voter registration online as well. Google IL voter's registration for that search. Also check out the white pages for his birthdate ($5/month for 20 premium searches) or www.nuwber.com
Again, all info. made available to the public for free. FYI: Don't enter contests or get magazine subscriptions as they both share your info.
Pretty easy to do without using CPD computers.
Does the CPS OIG's office have stupid and lazy or complicit investigators not to uncover these residency violators? Me thinks they purposely avoid going after 98% of CPS residency violators.
Interesting to see Lawdog Security owned by a CPD Lt forgiven of over a million dollar loan.
According to the CPS IG report they've been investigating PPP fraud since 2021 and in 2022 began to proactively look for scammers by matching names or addresses of their employees to PPP recipients. Where's the city IG? Have they been proactive? Or are they waiting it out for certain people to retire?
https://cpsoig.org/uploads/3/5/5/6/35562484/cps_oig_ppp_fraud_significant_activity_report_09.06.23.pdf
I bet some form of AI is being used. Is COPA using AI to identify individual officer's voices from bwc footage. Things that make you go hmmmm...
The probably got ratted out by someone they ticked off.
I checked my name, Red Bottoms. Nothing.
Hey SCC, you missed mentioning Jennifer Koniarski today, so I thought I would throw her in. I wonder if she had any fraudulent PPP loans?
Anonymous said...
Interesting to see Lawdog Security owned by a CPD Lt forgiven of over a million dollar loan.
9/27/2023 06:42:00 AM
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Not only did the LIEutenant scam on the company name but he also has time to moonlight as a private investigator with his, yet another, business Windy City investigations. The PPP loan he got for Windy City pales compared to the million dollar gift he got for lawdog, but nevertheless, this crook found every way to scam free ppp money.
But hey, he’s a lieutenant of police so who cares????
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bet some form of AI is being used. Is COPA using AI to identify individual officer's voices from bwc footage. Things that make you go hmmmm...
9/27/2023 07:20:00 AM
Little late there pal, been using voice AI to assess voice as a way to alert supervisors
SECURITY LOGISTICS GROUP, INC.
Location CRESTWOOD, IL
Loan Status Forgiven as of Nov. 3, 2020
Loan Amount $105,783
Date Approved April 28, 2020
Talk about another scam artist.
Scammed a promotion to Sgt too, and is jockeying for his merit next bump.
He gets a lot of mileage out of those knee pads.
Look at all the bosses on that list
Not only did the LIEutenant scam on the company name but he also has time to moonlight as a private investigator with his, yet another, business Windy City investigations. The PPP loan he got for Windy City pales compared to the million dollar gift he got for lawdog, but nevertheless, this crook found every way to scam free ppp money.
Know what you’re talking about. He has nothing to do with Windy City. That was his dads company that his dad sold about 10 years ago. The kid Lt then opened up lawdog. Windy City has had nothing to do with that family for quite some time.
I don’t really get the big deal?? Now don’t get me wrong, many people all of a sudden came up with 2 people security companies to scam the PPP.. but many cops actually own their own business with employees who got PPP money.. rightfully so, they owned a business that got massacred during covid. I know dozens of cops who own security firms, private investigators, restaurants, construction firms and many others. I know all of them took out PPP to keep afloat. That’s what the money was meant for. So if it’s a legit business what’s the big deal?? Not these 1 person security business or “day care” business that all of a sudden need 30k loans. If they need it they need it. It’s not their fault this tyrannical govt shut everything down.
Say what you will about law dog LT. I’ll be the first and think he’s a massive goofball. I did some work for the company and believe it or not they do employ a decent amount of people (matters on your loan size) and have a lot more contracts then I ever thought. I hated working for him on the department but was completely fair and a good boss at law dog. Plus I enjoy watching him make a fool out of himself at softball
Sure RW. Thanks for chiming in.
Tiny biz needs a millions dollar loan. GTFOH softball player. He needs a new radio battery at home. Get to it.
Anonymous said...
Say what you will about law dog LT. I’ll be the first and think he’s a massive goofball. I did some work for the company and believe it or not they do employ a decent amount of people (matters on your loan size) and have a lot more contracts then I ever thought. I hated working for him on the department but was completely fair and a good boss at law dog. Plus I enjoy watching him make a fool out of himself at softball
9/27/2023 09:53:00 PM
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