Two bipartisan bills were signed into law Friday aimed at holding accountable people who commit fraud under pandemic relief programs. The two new laws will extend the time period prosecutors have to prosecute people who committed fraud through the Paycheck Protection Program or COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, extending the statute of limitations for criminal and civil enforcement against a borrower to ten years.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.