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Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and Marshmello Allegedly Misused Pandemic Grants to Pay Themselves or Throw Lavish Parties
Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and Marshmello allegedly misused pandemic grants meant for struggling businesses according to a new report.
Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and Marshmello are just a few of the musicians who applied for and received payouts as part of the Shuttered Venue Operations Grant, a government program meant to aid independent venues and arts groups struggling during the pandemic. The artists were eligible to receive up to $10 million to spend on “ordinary and necessary” expenses earmarked for their loan-out companies, and were required to make a good-faith statement to the Small Business Administration and show their companies had lost revenue of at least 25 percent between one quarter in 2019 and the same quarter in 2020. But the report claims that many of the musicians who received the grants, none of whom responded to the publication’s requests for comments, used the money to pay either themselves or for unrelated expenses.
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