{"id":17273,"date":"2026-01-02T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sba-says-it-has-suspended-6900-minnesota-borrowers-over-suspected-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:21:23","slug":"sba-says-it-has-suspended-6900-minnesota-borrowers-over-suspected-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sba-says-it-has-suspended-6900-minnesota-borrowers-over-suspected-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"SBA says it has suspended &#8216;6,900 Minnesota borrowers&#8217; over suspected fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler said Thursday night that her agency has suspended &#8220;6,900 Minnesota borrowers&rdquo; over suspected fraudulent activity regarding COVID-era lending programs.&nbsp; Loeffler said the SBA over the last week reviewed &ldquo;thousands&rdquo; of potentially &ldquo;fraudulent&rdquo; Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) payouts that were approved in Minnesota.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5669459-minnesota-fraud-sba-ppp\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler said Thursday night that her agency has suspended &#8220;6,900 Minnesota borrowers&rdquo; over suspected fraudulent activity regarding COVID-era lending programs.&nbsp; Loeffler said the SBA over the last week reviewed &ldquo;thousands&rdquo; of potentially &ldquo;fraudulent&rdquo; Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) payouts that were approved in Minnesota.&nbsp;&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}