PPP Fraud Movement?
Are we going to see some accountability, years later? (paywalled Tribune article):
About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep small businesses afloat — part of a nationwide wave of Paycheck Protection Program fraud that siphoned tens of billions of dollars from taxpayers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While more than 200 have lost their jobs or voluntarily resigned, some have been referred for criminal prosecution for fraudulently obtaining the taxpayer-funded forgivable business loans, according to an Illinois Office of the Executive Inspector General report.
As of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2025, the OEIG found “reasonable cause” in 378 investigations, concluding that many state employees acquired PPP loans “based on falsified information,” the watchdog’s annual report released earlier this month said.
Without naming individuals, the report listed more than 100 employees from Illinois state government departments, including Human Services, Juvenile Justice, Corrections and Children and Family Services, who received more than $2.8 million in PPP loans. Many loans were in the $20,000 range, while a few exceeded $41,000. The investigations date back to 2022.
Again, this is a state investigation. There were quite a few CPD exempts who were found to have submitted applications for these loans, many for single-employee "security firms" pretty much meaning themselves, not to mention dozens of OEMC employees and we're told, quite a few CTU members.
And accountability was minimal:
- Illinois - 501 cases that they bothered to track
- Cook County - claimed a mere 65 cases out of 22,000 employees
- Cook County Sheriff - 163 cases investigated
- Cook County Courts - 78 cases
- the City of Chicago identified over 1,000 cases, but only investigated 60 cases, closing NINE
And guess what took up the bulk of the "investigative process"?
- CPD
But that was to control the investigation of the connected - not to affix accountability.
Labels: scandals
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
58 Comments:
Anyone fraudulently getting money they were not invited to needs to pay it back and should be sent to prison. Especially CPD bosses.
The "urban people" can sniff out a government check like a blood hound. They're like the Michelangelo of falsified paperwork.
Oh say can you see I committed fraud… on captains pay. …pinata
PPP was a disaster telling people that they didn’t have to pay their loans back. What a joke
Lock them up! CPD, oemc, cfd, let’s go!!
Even if they were reporting as a single employee "security firm" they would have to have a detective or security state of Il. License! How can the state of Il. Dept. of Professional Regulation allow them to operate W/O a state license? If they are single employee security contractors they still need a license. If they are watching someone's spouse or serving court papers they still need a license. If they are making a buck in that industry they need a license OR they should be investigated & fined. Nail these criminals every single way possible!! Once again some chose themselves over what it right. So now they should pay in every way we know how!!
Department of Aviation Security. 38 of these thieves work here and nothing will be done.
Something tells me the results would be deemed “racist”, because, well you know…..
Let the record show it’s the police operations side of OEMC not the fire operations side and I don’t have to explain why that is you readers I’m sure understand the difference.
Moral of the story is you get what you hire.
Nothing is going to come to fruition.
What’s the democratic?
Way, way too many. It would be an embarrassment, even with DJT as President.
No one will be prosecuted.
CFD Exempt ranks also applied & received PPP loans….
Im sure the Illinois AG had a finger on deciding what was slow rolled or ignored.
The AG had a great reputation for not embarrassing Democrat run agencies since way back.
Right Lisa?
State of Illinois, a state of Corruption and Embarrassment.
A little birdy told me that some indictments are pending for CPD officers.
Greed. Pure greed.
There are a number of CPD civilians caught up in this from certain South & Westside areas. All involving a certain local politicians “play cousin” who rounded up the local-yocals with a scheme to get $20k and give the “play cousin” $5k of the $20k. BIA is interviewing the involved civilians along with the ASA’s office. Rumor is all will be terminated but not before giving sworn statements regarding who orchestrated the fraud. They are also looking into their swipe history to see if they violated any other rules & regulations to make termination easier if they grieve (AFSME). OT is being looked at especially at HQ & the Academy for anyone wrapped in this mess.
Big facts 💯
Your sergeant must look forward to reading your reports every day.
Are they going to arrest Talley ?
BIA couldn’t close a wet dream case. Have they gone after Talley for her PPP loan? Yeah ok 🤣
I think they meant as long as you are a legitimate (key word) business operation.
Legitimate hahaha
Prosecuting cpd employees for ppp fraud would be too embarrassing, just like when a media outlet asked for the racial break down for medical use and abuse.
Ask Lisa @the skank” or Quami “the Fool”
It’s a criminal offense all the way up to a felony for operating a security firm without a license.
I'll believe it when I see it. Nothing ever happens
I am convinced there must be some secret location known only to the denizens of the ghetto, where some F2 college lib signs them up for all of the freebies they can steal from the taxpayers.
they soon will report, and the liberal media will all over the first male white Republican they find that committed that ppp fraud
They are finishing up dispatchers right now. Have you seen how many dispatchers have been leaving abruptly?
Next on tap are some Sgt and Lts that have taken sizable amounts that were previously forgiven. Now they are looking into the validity of the contracts stated and if money was dispersed to employees or just kept by the boss. That will reopen the forgiveness status and turn to fraud investigations. Couple Lts with decent size legit companies are going to be in trouble for fictitious accounts that did not exist but were submitted in which cash was received for and kept. Greed is all it is at end. Hope it was worth your pensions.
Many connected security companies claim they engage in guest services. I searched the app database and found a bunch of home addresses for barbers and nail people, the location or person, and often both were unlicensed.
So,...it's another Tuesday in Chicago...
Next question.
Why not simply prosecute all these scumbags federally, why is the City or State even involved?
Exactly.
The CHA is riddled with PPP fraud from the top down ! Know of more then a few persons working for the agency buy new luxury, automobiles watches, jewelry, and designer clothes out of the blue like they had won the lottery or something ! Something Fishy alright !
After having starved for decades of the essentials of actual and effective justice, the frustrations building exponentially as the decades passed, still, being that Rome wasn't built in a day, nor crumbled into it's corruptions overnight, still does not excuse being an impatient bitching karen.
Minneapolis Minnesota is a sanctuary city. Chicago is sanctuary city. Cook County is a sanctuary too. Look at the public money that "evaporated" in the name of healthcare, childcare, school lunches, food banks and other assistance benefits for the Minnesota's Somalis. And that's in one invading migrant tribe. Imagine the number of illegals in Cook County. Nine billion plus spent on community of 80 thousand in Minneapolis. Cook county can easily surpass nine billion if the right stones were unturned. Big migrant communities translate to larger democrat aligned opportunities and fatter local democrat cats than discovered in Minneapolis.
What local democrat organization shenanigans are the municipal and county governments up to with millions of illegals getting similar benefits? Corrupt PPP loans seem like a peanuts. If you extrapolate the size of Cook County illegal population to Minneapolis's illegals, the earnings potential to game the system is astronomical. Imagine the windfall without fear of prosecution by county judges, the Illinois attorney General's Office and police agencies of all stripes. No general offense case reports ever for the party in control and its apparatus as long as the corruption bankroll flows unchecked.
Did the Director of Wellness take out any of these loans?
Re: 12/30/2025 11:15:25 AM
Yeah, it’s called Church.
Great question, but we all know city & state are getting first dibs in prosecution so they can bury the most damaging/embarrassing cases.
can we get the racial demographics of those accused.? just want to make sure im thinking what everyone else is?
Ohh now the BIA decides to go after members that obtained fraudulent PPP Government Loans. Talley headed the BIA and was promoted to First after obtaining two fraudulent PPP Government Loans. She helped demote an exempt member for having a second employment at Sox Park after an CPS employee shot herself at the ball park, and yet she lied on a government application about owning her own business. Have they gone after Talley’s pension? (Crickets)
I know nobody cares about OEMC but if they did a breakdown of the medical abusers and users there it would paint a clear picture.
It’s all the same, all oemc
Don’t be a Law Dog…
and hillards kid
Nothing will happen.
March 20, 2025, the Chicago Wire published a long article about the former First Deputy YT and her PPP loan for “other personal care.”
https://chicagocitywire.com/small-business-administration-records-new-cpd-deputy-chief-yolanda-talley-received-21k-ppp-loan-for-other-personal-care-business/
March 2025, the Chicago Wire published a long article about the former First Deputy and her PPP loan.
Small Business Administration Records: New CPD Deputy Chief Yolanda Talley received $21K PPP loan for ‘other personal care’ business
Yolanda Talley, newly-named second in command of the Chicago Police Department, received a Paycheck Protection Program loan (PPP) for $20,833 in 2021 for a self-described “other personal care services” business, according to U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) records.
Talley was an employee of CPD in 2021, serving as a deputy chief of police.
SBA records show that Talley was issued funds as the sole proprietor of a business she described as “Black or African American female owned,” and employing at least one person during the loan period. She applied for assistance covering payroll for that employee.
However, the name of Talley’s business is not provided. Talley’s LinkedIn profile also does not include any mention of her business.
Records do show that as of March 2023, Talley’s loan has not been paid back in full, or forgiven.
CPD’s Communications and News Affairs Office did not return a request for comment from Chicago City Wire’s inquiry on the matter.
In response to Talley’s promotion, the police blog Second City Cop noted the February 2022 incident in which Talley’s niece was pulled over while driving her aunt’s car due to her passenger, known drug dealer Kenneth Miles, allegedly tossing a large bag of heroin from the window of the moving vehicle.
“My auntie is probably your boss,” Talley’s niece told police after being pulled over and questioned, according to CPD body camera footage of the incident.
According to WGN, despite Talley’s niece driving with a suspended license at the time, CPD returned her aunt’s vehicle to her.
The report also noted that it was unusual for CPD to return the car, as vehicles are routinely seized in investigations involving smaller amounts of drugs.
Talley was never accused of being involved in the incident, other than loaning her car to a relative.
In an exclusive report, CWBChicago later revealedthat Miles was also the “John Doe” who provided incorrect information to CPD resulting in the now infamous mistaken raid on Anjanette Young’shome.
If he did, I’m sure he can justify it because he has his own practice as a Psychologist in Evergreen. He’s a business owner and I’m sure there’s more than one other employee in his office. He’s not obligated to pay them out of his CPD check.
There are a few CPD members who have changed their names to avoid detection. Also, a few have come back as civilian members and changed their name when they came back.
12/30/2025 08:51:38 PM:
I wasn’t aware that F/2’s were running churches in the ghetto, thats weird.
If PPP loans were federal funds the prosecutions should be in federal courts, because we know what the corrupt county court system would do with these cases of PPP theft and fraud. Won’t throw their voting base in prison.
So the inspector general can now run everyone who is an employee and search loan history with out a complaint? DID they run all the Aldermanic staff and Aldermans life partners?? Run your alderman yourself see what the staff has done . I know its too hard
If the goofballs on that team had done their own independent surveillance to verify Miles’ info, they might not have executed the warrant at the wrong place. But that would have been too much like police work.
Speaking of movement, I had a big one this morning. It was so cathartic and rewarding. I want to thank the SCC Blog Operators for allowing me to have this relieving experience. Payback is a b@#ch! Have they nailed any of the dispatchers for the Triple P Loan fraud? In the words of the dispatchers who are about to get royally flushed down the toilet, "she gone!"
It isnt that nobody cares what is going on in OEMC. It is that none of you are providing detailed information that can be prosecuted. Nothing any of you are saying can be proved. Provide details, times, event numbers if you want change.
12/31/2025 12:56:17 PM:
Funny! The F/2s aren’t running the churches, but they know the fastest way by far to jump their “client” numbers is by signing up an active Church member, who then ropes in everyone else in the congregation to come Get Theirs. If lucky, you get invited to set up a table at some picnic just to sign up folks (or peoples).
Just ask CEDA.
Amen!
One can only hope.
Or the Carters.
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