HPMC Agrees to a $3 Million Settlement Over PPP Fraud
HPM Corporation, the occupational health services contractor to the Hanford site, and its owners, Grover Cleveland Mooers and Hollie Mooers, will pay $2.94 million in restitution and penalties to resolve civil and criminal liabilities associated with allegations they defrauded the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
Vanessa Waldref, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced the settlement agreement in March. The settlement also resolves individual False Claims Act liability of the owners.
According to the Department of Justice, HPMC applied for and secured a $1.35 million PPP loan in April 2020, one month after Congress established the program under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act during the early job-killing days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
