By Sara Kropf If I had a dollar for every time a government employee told me, “this OIG investigation is political!”—well, I’d be retired by now. I get it. The Inspector General for many agencies is appointed by the President. There’s a natural instinct to view that...
By Sara Kropf As Andrea mentioned in her last post, the Small Business Administration’s Office of Inspector General (SBA-OIG) has seen a massive increase in fraud complaints to its hotline. These are related to the CARES Act or Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). When...
By Andrea L. Moseley Small businesses have been struggling for survival throughout the pandemic. As if that was not hard enough, small business executives have had to hang on with both hands to avoid being thrown off the pendulating landscape of pandemic relief loan...
By Sara Kropf Each year, we like to look back at our most popular posts. Even in this unique year, our most popular posts were our most practical ones. There’s no doubt that as the news turned to FBI investigations, search terms about the agency’s interview memos...
By Sara Kropf We just finished watching HBO’s The Undoing. Pandemic or not, it’s great television. I'll try not include any plot spoilers in this post, but if you really don’t want to know anything about the show, then you probably want to stop reading now. The show...
By Sara Kropf The Securities and Exchange Commission just announced settled charges against The Cheesecake Factory for making misleading disclosures about COVID-19’s impact on its financial situation. According to the SEC’s press release, “[t]he action is the SEC's...
By Andrea Moseley Since late Spring, I have been tracking emerging trends in COVID-19 related fraud. In May, DoJ charged the first individuals in the nation with fraudulently seeking CARES Act SBA Paycheck Protection Loans. As expected, DoJ's well-funded appetite for...
By Sara Kropf Lawyer Sidney Powell appeared at a press conference a few days ago as a member of the President’s legal team and made a few jarring comments (most notably about Hugo Chavez trying to rig the U.S. election). A few days later, the President’s lead personal...
By Sara Kropf The Washington Post recently published an interesting article evaluating the risk that President Trump might reveal classified information after he leaves office. The article highlights the amount of amount of classified information revealed to...
By: Sara Kropf I have a Gmail account for personal use. You likely do too. And nearly every one of my clients has one. In fact, Google owns about 43% of the email market. Gmail has about 1.8 billion users and about 306 billion emails are sent and received daily in...