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* From the Office of Executive Inspector General…
PPP Fraud Update
In 2022, the OEIG began a large-scale investigation to examine whether employees under its jurisdiction failed to disclose secondary employment or improperly obtained federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. These investigations involved comparing evidence of secondary employment against loan applications submitted to the U.S. Small Business Administration. Generally, each individual employee was assigned a designated case number.
As of the close of Fiscal Year 2025 (June 30, 2025), the OEIG completed 501 individual cases, and 373 of those resulted in findings of misconduct against employees within our jurisdiction. PPP reports published by the Executive Ethics Commission are available on the OEIG website.
posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 11:19 am
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Wonder what the percentage of 1) state employees who got a PPP loan the 373 is, and 2) what percentage of all PPP loans had some misconduct.
Comment by Perrid Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 11:46 am
What has always shocked me is the high level of public employees who engaged in PPP fraud, which suggests to me non-public employees also engaged in such fraud but are just harder to identify.
Where are the Republicans looking for waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government on this topic?
Comment by Just Me 2 Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 11:49 am
“Wonder what the percentage of 1) state employees”
Click on the link and count it up.
Comment by Huh? Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 11:53 am
“high level of public employees who engaged in PPP fraud”
Depending on where you look, there are something along the line of 76,000 people working for the State of Illinois. The percentage of State employees committing PPP fraud is about 0.6%.
This is not a “high” number.
Comment by Huh? Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 11:58 am
This isn’t just a problem with state employees, but County employees and other government employees as well. Amazing how many people think they can get away with ripping off the federal government and the taxpayers w/o any repercussions.
Comment by Remember the Alamo II Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 11:58 am
The greed involved in PPP fraud schemes still bothers me. Plenty of State (and county and local) employees were sent home in March of 2020 without the ability to do their work. As far as I know, no agency missed payroll. So while employees were being paid not to work, they decided to steal even more taxpayer money for work they didn’t do.
Comment by Sox Fan Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 12:02 pm
===What has always shocked me is the high level of public employees who engaged in PPP fraud, which suggests to me non-public employees also engaged in such fraud but are just harder to identify.=={
You’re probably right. I doubt there’s anything special about government employees making them more likely to falsify PPP applications. It’s just easier to catch them due to having to publicly having to disclose secondary employment.
Comment by Sox Fan Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 12:06 pm
Small % check
Steps being taken to claw back ripped off $$$
Discipline?
Cost of OEIG “probe”?
Misdeeds unprobed while PPP manhunt conducted?
So many questions
Comment by Annon'in Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 1:02 pm
===Discipline?===
In reports I’ve read, employee has quit / is fired. Won’t claim that happens in all cases, but seems pretty consistent across the board.
Comment by Anyone Remember Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 1:23 pm
Wonder what the percentage of 1) state employees
The OEIG does not just have jurisdiction over state employees. They also have jurisdiction over appointees and officials including all nine public universities, the four Chicago area regional transit boards, and vendors that do business with the state.
Comment by Steve Polite Friday, Jul 25, 25 @ 1:26 pm