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Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - June 2021 #2

On June 22, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing titled “U.S. Economy On The Path To Strong Recovery.” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified regarding the Fed’s emergency pandemic...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - June 2021

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis continues its investigation into PPP fraud. On May 27, the Select Subcommittee turned its focus to FinTech firms and partner banks implicated in Department of Justice...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - May 2021

The Congressional Oversight Commission released its 12th report on April 30. The report focuses on a $700 million loan to trucking company Yellow Corporation (formerly known as YRC Worldwide) under the CARES Act loan program...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - April 2021 #2

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released documents showing President Trump’s political appointees discussing their efforts to exert influence over the CDC’s COVID-19 guidelines and reports to more...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - April 2021

As part of its ongoing investigation into pandemic-related government contracts entered into by the Trump Administration, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released documents that offer a real-time look...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - March 2021 #4

As part of an ongoing investigation into a “failed” $35 million contract to provide six million N95 masks to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chair James Clyburn...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - March 2021 #3

On March 15, the SBA Office of the Inspector General published a report identifying $692 million in duplicate PPP loans. This confirmed earlier findings made by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis in...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - March 2021 #2

Republican leaders urged their House Democrat counterparts to hold a joint hearing regarding the undercounting of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Cathy...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - March 2021

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis launched an investigation into One Medical’s COVID-19 vaccine-distribution practices. In a letter, Subcommittee Chair James Clyburn (D-SC) highlighted the need for...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - February 2021 #3

On her first day as Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) said she would ask the FTC to look into N95 mask fraud, including 1.9 million counterfeits shipped to...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - February 2021

House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chair James Clyburn (D-SC) released a statement following a new report from the Government Accountability Office on the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - January 2021

Congress has been focused this past week on the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the 232-197 vote to impeach President Trump for a second time, on a charge of “incitement of insurrection.” Meanwhile,...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - December 2020 #3

Chair of the House Oversight & Reform Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) sent a letter to Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, requesting...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - December 2020 #2

The Congressional Oversight Commission will hold a hearing today to examine the funds authorized by the CARES Act that provide up to $17 billion for loans and loan guarantees to businesses critical to maintaining national...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - December 2020

The Congressional Oversight Commission released its seventh report, which focuses on the Treasury and the Department of Defense’s $700 million loan to YRC Worldwide, Inc. The report is highly critical of the loan, noting that...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - November 2020

..Congressional Oversight Commissioner Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL) lost her bid for reelection. Commissioner Rep. French Hill (R-AR) was reelected. ..The Congressional Oversight Commission released its sixth report, which...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - October 2020

The chairs of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Financial Services Committee, and Oversight and Reform Committee sent letters to the outside directors of Eastman Kodak seeking documents tied to the...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - September 2020 #4

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Corey Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to OSHA regarding the agency’s delayed response to the dozens of reports of COVID-19 outbreaks affecting thousands of workers in hundreds of meatpacking...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - August #4

The Congressional Oversight Commission released its fourth report, which provides an in-depth analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Main Street Lending Program as well as updates regarding recent key actions the Treasury and the...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - August 2020 #2

The Congressional Oversight Commission held its first hearing on August 7, focusing on the Federal Reserve’s $600 billion Main Street Lending Program. Commission members were critical of the program, with Democrat Bharat...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - August 2020

Bharat Ramamurti, a Democratic member of the Congressional Oversight Commission, tweeted that the Commission will hold its first hearing on August 7, which will focus on the Federal Reserve’s Main Street Lending Program. ...more

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - July 2020

Several news outlets reported that former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford is the leading contender to chair the Congressional Oversight Commission—a position that, under the CARES Act, must be jointly selected...more

COVID-19: Weekly Oversight & Enforcement Report

Welcome to the first edition of WilmerHale's COVID-19 Oversight and Enforcement Report, a weekly roundup of notable congressional, executive branch, and state attorney general oversight and enforcement activity relating to...more

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