Overview
- Letters sent to roughly 4,300 participants require three years of bank statements, general ledgers, payroll registers, subcontracting agreements, financials, and employment records, with many files requested in CSV format.
- Administrator Kelly Loeffler said mounting evidence shows the program has been used as a pass‑through for fraud, and she pledged coordination with law enforcement during a comprehensive review.
- The SBA action follows corruption cases tied to federal contracting, including guilty pleas involving a former USAID official and executives at Vistant and Apprio, and recent suspensions of ATI Government Solutions and related firms.
- A separate lawsuit filed Nov. 17 in federal court in Louisiana challenges the SBA’s race‑based presumptions of disadvantage, brought by Revier Technologies and Young America’s Foundation and naming Loeffler and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
- The push comes as the Transportation Department recently removed presumptive race‑ and sex‑based eligibility in its DBE program after the administration acknowledged constitutional problems with such presumptions.