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Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, at least 50 individuals have been prosecuted for pandemic relief fraud in N.C., totaling up to nearly $40 million in COVID-19 relief fraud.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 12:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A felon convicted in North Carolina for scamming the federal government out of $143,000 in COVID-19 relief will get a new prison sentence.
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 @ 5:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New Hampshire’s Manchester School District received COVID relief funds to host a youth pride event with a drag performance, a new report found.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 3:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As federal funding to schools for covid relief is entering its last phase, a lot of people are beginning to ask the question: What difference has $172 billion made for students and our schools?
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2023 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House K-12 Education Committee passed a bill Jan. 31 that directs federal COVID-19 relief dollars to fund a new software program for remedying learning loss.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 6:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) today questioned witnesses from the United States Secret Service, the Justice Department and the Government Accountability Office on improper government spending of federal COVID-19 relief money.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 9:01 am
By: ENC NOW
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Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, asked State Auditor Beth Wood about findings from an audit of COVID-19 relief funds.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 9:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remember these numbers. $442 million and $306.7 million. Those figures represent how much money Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has received in federal covid relief funds and how much money the district has actually spent.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 12:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Community Foundation has completed its 2022 round of grantmaking from its COVID-19 relief fund, with another $1.25 million distributed to assist nonprofit organizations that were impacted by revenue loss and increased demand for services because of the pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 6:50 am
By: ENC NOW
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Five current or former employees of the IRS have been charged with scheming to defraud hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID relief.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 6:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt proposes using COVID-19 relief funds to cover principal pay gap.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 8:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A previously deported illegal alien pleaded guilty this week to charges including identity theft and benefits fraud in part relating to aid given during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina schools received over $6 billion in funding to remedy the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on students and schools.
Published: Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 @ 2:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What is happening to all that money Wake County Schools (WCPSS) is getting for covid relief?
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's largest hospital systems profited from billions COVID relief funds and Medicare payments.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy Find that North Carolina's Seven Largest Hospital Systems Reaped Billions of Dollars in Cash, Investments and Profits After Taking COVID Relief
Published: Thursday, June 30th, 2022 @ 7:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy Find that North Carolina's Dominant Hospital Systems Recorded Billions of Dollars in Profits After Taking Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Six billion dollars — remember that number. The North Carolina Pandemic Recovery Office says that’s how much money our state has received for K-12 Covid-19 relief via the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief Act (ESSER).
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 5:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2020, North Carolina has received -almost $6.1 billion in federal covid relief funds.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Golden LEAF Foundation failed to monitor how $83 million in federal money from the COVID-19 Rapid Recovery Loan Program were used, a new audit finds.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A woman allegedly used money she received through the federal Paycheck Protection Program to hire a hitman to kill a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent working in Miami.
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 8:35 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Currently, North Carolina public schools are sitting on over $4 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding. And the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) wants school boards to begin spending it.
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than a year after the first North Carolina Healing Communities Fund grants were issued by the North Carolina Community Foundation, the fund has distributed $4.25 million to help provide critical resources for nonprofit organizations impacted by revenue loss and increased demand for services
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 3:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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New Treasury guidance on state and local Covid relief spending is a nod to government and a flippant disregard of taxpayers and small businesses.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tucked into the new state budget are billions of dollars from Washington for Covid relief. The American Rescue Plan Act, for example, sent $5.4 billion to the state.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 1:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the terrorists responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing received a $1,400 COVID relief check last summer that federal prosecutors are now seeking to take in order to make restitution to the victims of the attack, a report says.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 2:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Public school districts in North Carolina have received about $5.3 billion in COVID-related relief from the federal government.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 4:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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More than half (55 percent) of parents believe the $190 billion in federal covid-relief funding allocated to U.S. K-12 schools is an appropriate amount
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 4:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. House Republicans have filed an ambitious bill that will allocate three quarters of a billion federal dollars toward broadband.
Published: Thursday, May 20th, 2021 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You just can't make this stuff up
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 @ 8:26 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Reflecting the United States’ solidarity with India as it battles a new wave of COVID-19 cases, the United States is delivering supplies worth more than $100 million in the coming days to provide urgent relief to our partners in India.
Published: Thursday, April 29th, 2021 @ 11:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The federal government sent nearly $4 billion in COVID relief money to North Carolina, but a sizable chunk of it was returned, unwanted, a new report from the state auditor’s office finds.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 4:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Support Services Program, more than 35,000 households received relief payments, food, transportation to and from testing sites or additional supports to help them isolate or quarantine during the pandemic.
Published: Monday, March 29th, 2021 @ 11:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bill into law: House Bill 196
Published: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 @ 1:46 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The General Assembly has passed with a unanimous vote a new COVID relief bill that would direct nearly $1.7 billion in aid across the state.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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