Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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More than 8,800 people who have CHA vouchers or live in public housing in Chicago obtained more than 10,000 PPP loans totaling more than $190 million, and authorities suspect that much of that was tied to fraud. People living in 5,361 CHA-related households will have to explain whether their loans were legitimate, according to the inspector general for the agency. As of last August, about 40 people had their vouchers revoked by CHA as a result of the still-ongoing investigation.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
And CHA will renew every PPP-loan fraudster’s housing voucher. Crime pays, in Chicago, as proven day after day, year after year. Now go after CPD Internal Investigations Chief Talley – she apparently has a PPP loan too.
RICO What Democrats were involved?
De facto reparations. Move along everyone.
The massive number of independent hairdressers and janitors requesting PPP loans in Chicago should’ve set off red flags from the get-go.
The other red-flag is that few of them ever applied for forgiveness. They got the money, and then moved on to the next grift.
The woman committed a knowingly committed a crime because she knew she didn’t have a business. This thing about a “broker” (doesn’t exist) is a red herring. Instead of a CHA apartment, the woman should be housed in a federal gray bar hotel for a few years.
There’s not enough room in prison for all the people who took fraudulent PPP Loans
Lots of room in Venezuela-Mexico-Central America/etc. Those countries should be empty pretty soon.
I believe those forms were not easy to complete in order to guarantee you’d get the loan. I’m thinking there was a broker or someone that advised them on how to fill out the forms. Can’t give up the broker you go to jail, give up the broker you go to jail for less time.