Six agency OIGs matched tens of thousands of employees with SBA loans for which they were not eligible. Image: Jason Raff/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffAn interagency group of inspector general and law enforcement officials has said that its activities include investigating federal employees for possible fraud or misuse of funds under pandemic relief programs including Economic Injury Disaster Loans and the Paycheck Protection Program.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee said in a report to Congress that it is working to “identify active employees that applied for PPP or EIDL, which they are ineligible to receive” through a computer matching process. “So far, this analysis has helped six agency OIGs match tens of thousands of employees with SBA loans for which they were not eligible,” it said.
The report did not identify the agencies, although the IG at DHS recently reported that it found some $2.6 million in potentially fraudulent unemployment insurance claims made in the names of DHS employees, adding that it is likely that some of them resulted from identity theft.
The report meanwhile listed prosecutions including a former Amtrak employee convicted on charges of PPP program fraud and another facing similar charges; a former Agriculture Department employee convicted of unemployment insurance fraud; and three former Postal Service workers charged with bribery and theft of mail related to an alleged benefits theft scheme.
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