A Slum Times Miracle!
A PPP fraud case....that doesn't involve the CPD?
A former top Chicago Public School official was charged with ripping off two pandemic relief programs, nearly three years after the school system found she had lied about her income in order to receive loans.
Crystal Cooper, the district’s former chief operating officer, was among at least 14 CPS staffers who left their jobs in 2023 after the district’s inspector general uncovered they had falsified information on applications for federal Paycheck Protection Program loans.
This May, Cooper was charged with three counts of wire fraud, according to a recently unsealed federal indictment.
Beginning in June 2020, Cooper applied for two federal loans through the PPP and Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, according to the indictment. Those programs were intended to help small businesses survive the pandemic, but they were overrun with fraud.
Cooper was accused of lying about her income and the revenue she received from a side business that she’d never disclosed to CPS. She ultimately received over $28,000 in loans that she tapped for “her personal use and benefit,” according to the indictment. Like most of the country’s 11.4 million PPP loans, Cooper’s were forgiven and she didn’t have to pay anything back.
How did this one get past the Slum Times editors?
Wait....wait....
- At least 36 Chicago police officers were found to have defrauded the PPP program, according to reports by City Hall inspector general’s office. The list includes eight cops highlighted in a report last month who bilked a total of $282,639 in PPP funds.
Ah yes....there's the Slum Times bias we've all come to know and love. Over 1,000 city employees were found to have received fraudulent loans, including 780 CPS employees (none of whom actually missed a paycheck), but they have to mention 36 cops.
Assholes.
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
8 Comments:
I trust the ig to investigate like I trust a gold star to pass a test. How is it the feds never charged these cops but the Crack team of not trained ig investigators determines they violated federal laws? Not excusing the behavior but the ig are clouded up idiots.
…and countless police dispatchers and call takers at OEMC. Some left on their own most still remain. You hire professional system hustlers you get system hustler behavior.
All of these thieves should be made to pay all that money back regardless of whom they worked for. They stole from us, why should we take the hit? There was a time when thieves went to jail, but not anymore. At least fire them.
Everyone of the PPP loans that were issued with fraudulent and misleading information should have criminal charges filed against the people responsible.
Still waiting for the Slum Times to report on the exempt rank CFD members who received dubious PPP loans. Those higher ranks really are surviving paycheck to paycheck.
Thas ok...get rid of the shit thats on this Depts payroll...might as well get rid of all the scum..Im sure alot were high ranking.
They are good Politburo Komrades.
So much corruption in a Chicago Public school system how many sexual assaults how many PPP loan is total the feds need to get involved these people need to go to the federal penitentiary on your criminals. They’re not teaching the children anyway many of them cannot even read, but yet they are forced to promote them putting dummies out that are not even qualified to work at McDonald’s. But then again, fast food will be AI soon and they will not even be able to work there, it will be on the government dole forever.
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