In all, the inspector general has released more than a dozen findings of PPP loan fraud among county workers since last summer.
last month. Sheriff Tom Dart’s office also “identified more than a dozen individuals in custody” in 2022 who received large influxes of funds that “could be a potential misuse,” of PPP funds and referred the issue to the FBI, spokesman Matthew Walberg told the Tribune last month., former Independent Inspector General Pat Blanchard recommended four employees be terminated and barred from working for the county again for fraudulent applications or violation of county rules.
The report also said three other employees in the office recommended for termination in earlier reports had indeed been let go.Of the new cases in the report released Thursday, an unnamed employee at the Bureau of Technology got a PPP loan of nearly $20,000 for claiming he was the “sole proprietor” of a taxi and limousine service.But the OIIG investigation proved “he provided false and misleading information about his stated business” and how much revenue it made, the report said.
She had failed to disclose her outside job and used a county laptop “to conduct her real estate management business,” both violations of personnel rules. The IG recommended she be fired and placed on the county’s do not hire list. The recommendation is pending.
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