Re:Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock...
by tdfx on Monday May 09, 2022 @11:45PM
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I don't think there's enough investigative power to find all the people who were abusing the system. The level of fraud that I personally witnessed of people filing hundreds of PPP loans for non-existent businesses was in the high 7-figure range, and that was just 2 guys I happened to hear of. There were likely hundreds of scammers doing the same thing in every major city, each stealing millions of dollars each.
Re:Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock...
by dboreham on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:21AM
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It should be possible to identify these people very easily with a SQL query. To qualify, a business had to have been running for some time (years) and have payroll. So run a query for "loans issued to entities with banking history < 1y and w-2 withholding payments == 0".
Re:Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock...
by LorenPechtel on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:45PM
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Good luck figuring out where the money actually went, though.
These people who bought homes and shit with ppp are going to go to prison. I hope at least.