Garbarino: New York State hospitals to get more than $2B in late COVID funds

The reimbursements were designed to help hospitals pay for the significant added financial burdens they incurred during the crisis.
The Island Packet

NC failed to make sure $3 billion in COVID relief was spent properly, audit says

North Carolina potentially misspent federal COVID-19 relief money, according to a state audit released Thursday, because officials failed to monitor how more than $3 billion was actually used. The ...
Charlotte Observer

How COVID relief funds were meant to be used, and how they were misused

Charlotte City Council member Tiawana Brown has been indicted on federal COVID loan fraud charges. This is a developing story. As the COVID pandemic took hold in 2020, federal lawmakers created a ...
abc7NY

Small businesses may get COVID-19 relief loans as soon as Friday

Small businesses seeking loans through the government's $2 trillion coronavirus relief package could receive money as soon as Friday. That prediction came Tuesday from senior administration officials ...
ABC7

Stimulus package vote: Senate Republican's COVID-19 relief bill blocked as prospects dim for new relief

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats scuttled a scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package on Thursday as the parties argued to a standstill over the size and scope of the aid, likely ending hopes for ...
WREG

Woman gets 41 months for defrauding COVID-19 relief programs of over $500k

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman was sentenced to 41 months after pleading guilty to defrauding COVID-19 relief programs out of over $500,000. Deashley Tabor, 37, was also sentenced to three years of ...