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What trends do you see in the prosecution of fraud cases?
What trends do you see in the prosecution of fraud cases?
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some trends in federal uh fraud
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prosecutions one one that’s really hot
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right now is
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ppp fraud the paycheck protection
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program that was passed as part of the
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cares act giving the opportunity for
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employers to
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get a loan from the government
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that could potentially be forgiven in
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order to cover
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their payroll
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and in order to keep employees on
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the government has in the last couple of
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years since ppp was enacted has started
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to focus on people who fraudulently
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requested these loans
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one sort of a a trend that we’ve seen
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before that is popping up again with
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these ppp loans
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is that the government seems to be uh
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going after
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smaller businesses and individuals who
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they feel have committed fraud
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rather than the larger companies
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who who got many
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many more and met much higher amounts of
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these loans for one reason or another
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the government
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is is focusing on smaller individuals
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and that’s something we saw you know in
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the mortgage fraud crisis back in in oa
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and beyond it was this the small guys
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that uh the government was going after
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rather than the big lenders or the big
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banks and now they’re doing the same
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with ppp
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some other uh
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trends that i’ve seen are
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uh
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social security fraud phone calls being
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made to individuals posing as a social
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security administration in order to get
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personal information or to request funds
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uh illegally that that’s another uh
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level of fraud that i’ve seen the the
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government going after recently
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Atlanta, GA criminal defense attorney Elizabeth A. Brandenburg discusses the trends she sees in the prosecution of fraud cases.
