Delta agrees to pay $8.1M to settle lawsuit on claims of misusing COVID funds

Delta Airlines settles for $8.1M in pandemic funds case

ATLANTA (WKBN) -- Delta Airlines has settled a lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice over pandemic relief funds provided to the airline through the Payroll Support Program (PSP). To receive PSP money during the pandemic, companies had to impose caps on high-paid executives -- those earning more than $425,000 in 2019. The United States alleges that Delta violated these caps and then falsely certified that it had abided by them. Delta receiv…

Delta repays government to settle claims it misused COVID relief funds

ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines has paid the federal government $8.1 million to settle claims that it misused a portion of the $11.9 billion in taxpayer dollars it received as emergency aid during the pandemic, according to the Justice Department.

The Costs of Covid

The Covid pandemic’s onset prompted speculation that the disease had been created in a lab in China, specifically as a weapon against the United States. This new and highly contagious virus did wreak profound socioeconomic trauma and widespread suffering, borne disproportionately by the disadvantaged. Initially it caused nearly 1.2 million deaths in the United States. […]

Delta agrees to pay $8.1M to settle lawsuit on claims of misusing COVID funds

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that they’d reached an agreement to settle allegations that Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines had misused $81. million in pandemic relief funding.

Delta agrees to pay $8.1 million settlement after allegations it violated COVID relief program

Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay an $8.1 million settlement to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act under a COVID relief program, the DOJ said.

Delta Air Lines agrees to pay $8.1 million after violating federal pay rules tied to COVID relief in Georgia - TDPel Media

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government stepped in to help struggling businesses stay afloat. Among the hardest-hit industries was air travel, which came to a virtual standstill. Now, years later, Delta Air Lines is in the spotlight—not for its flights, but for how it handled those emergency relief funds. Delta Accused of Going Over the Limit Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia, has agreed to pay $8.1 million to se…