ROCHESTER, N.Y. — News10NBC is continuing to investigate fraudulent COVID loans hitting victims across the country. The federal government sent these loans to collections this year, and now victims are getting demand letters.
Good news, bad news
Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean has helped every single person who has appeared in his COVID loan stories get the problem fixed. However, new victims keep emerging.
“Somebody made out with money in our name and it’s very frustrating,” Jen Zoller of Fairport said.
Zoller has the same problem News10NBC has exposed in previous investigations. Days after Brean’s August story on the fraudulent COVID PPP loan with Tim Thompson’s name, the Small Business Administration accepted that his ID was stolen. The SBA recalled his name from collections…