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Only a small fraction of applicants got money from Harris County’s $30M COVID-19 relief funds. Where did the money go?
For months, Channel 2 Investigates has been keeping tabs on a $30 million Harris County COVID-19 Relief Fund. The money was distributed in two phases, but the information on exactly who got the money, and exactly how much, has not been as easy to come by.
Good deals available as Houston’s travel and tourism industry begins a slow recovery
Houston’s travel and tourism industry has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The hotels, bars and restaurants, and airports that pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the regional economy each year have shed tens of thousands of jobs since March.
Houston man accused of fraudulently getting $1.6M from a COVID-19 relief program was one of many, records show
Immediately after receiving more than $1.6 million from the Small Business Association’s Paycheck Protection Program, 29-year-old Lee Price III of Houston went on a shopping spree for luxury items, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of days, according to court documents.