Fintech companies acted with 'inexcusable misconduct,' failed to stop COVID fraud, top Dem alleges

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Financial technology services companies received billions of dollars through taxpayer-funded PPP loan processing fees with little oversight of who was getting the loans, House lawmakers allege.

David Spunt reports on estimated $100 billion in fraud casesissued during the coronavirus pandemic. , shows multiple financial technology companies, or fintechs, were either unable or unwilling to perform checks and balances on loans being issued. The result was the approval of large numbers of fraudulent applications – and untold tens of billions of dollars meant for struggling small businesses stolen.

"As today’s report details, many fintechs, while promising to help disburse billions of Paycheck Protection Program [PPP] dollars to struggling small businesses efficiently and expeditiously, refused to take adequate steps to detect and prevent fraud despite their clear responsibility to safeguard taxpayer funds.

Blueacorn, a company founded during the pandemic to help small businesses access PPP loans, received more than $1 billion in taxpayer-funded processing fees but spent less than 1% of its earnings on preventing fraud, investigators found. The company also pressured employees to spend less than 30 seconds reviewing loan applications, instructing workers, "the faster the better."

Companies like Capital Plus, Harvest, and other fintech-partnered PPP lenders admitted to having no formal program to oversee Womply and Blueacorn's activities.

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JC = much too old to be on top of anything important on the Hill.

I am sure this man was in on it all. I will not use his name since him and Bidden our buddies who cheated to get were they are.

Isn't this the man that got Bidden elected president, I bet he used Twitter for his dirty work.

It looks like ABC, CBS, AND NBC ARE SUPRESSING THE BOMBSHELL TWITTER NEWS ABOUT THE BIDEN LAPTOP , RIGHT BEFORE THE SENATE RUNOFF IN GEORGIA. AMAZING THAT THEY STILL WANT TO HIDE THE TRUTH FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. MORE ELECTION INTERFERENCE?

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