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House Small Business chair proposes whistleblower commission payments to recover pandemic loan fraud
Summary
Rep. Roger Williams introduced the Put America on Commission Act of 2026, proposing paid commissions to whistleblowers who identify suspected COVID-19 loan fraud; he cited large suspected shortfalls in PPP and urged recovering taxpayer funds rather than writing them off.
Rep. Roger Williams, chair of the House Small Business Committee, said he introduced the Put America on Commission Act of 2026 to pay commissions to whistleblowers who can identify pandemic-era loan fraud and help recover taxpayer funds. “When I became chairman of the committee, I said, we're not gonna write it off. That's the people's money,” Williams said.
The proposal would offer financial incentives to private individuals who produce verifiable information showing where pandemic relief money was…
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