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The 42-year-old, a former Phoenix TV anchor turned entrepreneur, was sentenced in Texas federal court Friday and ordered to cough up nearly $64 million in restitution for the bogus Paycheck Protection Program loans she helped secure during the height of the pandemic,Hockridge and her husband, Nathan Reis, founded a lending-services company called Blueacorn in 2020, which they claimed was designed to help small businesses secure federal Paycheck Protection Program loans at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But prosecutors said couple’s Scottsdale-based firm charged borrowers kickbacks based on percentage of the funds received — and submitted applications to the US Small Business Administration, which ran the PPP program, they knew where loaded with fraudulent information.In total, they processed more than $63 million in bogus PPP loans, according to the DOJ. The PPP was an $800 billion federal loan initiative launched in 2020 to help small businesses keep workers employed during the COVID-19 pandemic.The former KNXV-TV anchor claimed that her actions were a “sincere effort to support small businesses” in navigating a chaotic government problem during an era of “unprecedented need.” But a congressional report found that Blueacorn routinely failed to properly vet applicants and charged illegal “success fees” to borrowers — violating Small Business Administration rules.She will be locked up at the same minimum-security facility that houses Jeffrey Epstein’s madam and notorious sex trafficker Ghisliane Maxwell.“Favorite Newscaster” by Arizona Foothills Magazine.The raunchy sex-act RFK Jr. texted about with Olivia Nuzzi, according to her ex Ryan LizzaBeyoncé turns heads in form-fitting racing gear while arriving at F1 Grand Prix with Jay-ZTrump’s Russia-Ukraine peace plan hands Putin a win he didn’t earnShe will be locked up at the same minimum-security facility that houses Jeffrey Epstein's madam and notorious sex trafficker Ghisliane Maxwell.
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