small business administration
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For Colorado’s regional small business administrator, family matters
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A month after Aikta Marcoulier started her new job overseeing 580,000 square miles of the West as the regional administrator for the Small Business Administration, her mother died. Marcoulier’s mother, Dr. Rajeshvari Verma, was 70 when she succumbed in June to interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that destroys lung tissue. Despite losing who her sister…
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Highlands Ranch man sentenced to more than 3 years in federal prison for improper use of COVID-19 relief funds
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A judge on Thursday sentenced a Highlands Ranch man to more than three years in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $800,000 in COVID-19 relief funds and using the money to pay for plastic surgery, a weight loss program and jewelry. Daniel Stonebarger, 50, will serve 41 months behind bars, the U.S. attorney’s office announced…
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Study: Colorado received $63 billion in COVID relief, stimulus
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Colorado landed more than $60 billion in federal COVID-19 pandemic assistance and other funding during the past two years, according to a recent study by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. The $63.6 billion in government cash, or more than $11,000 for each person in Colorado, came in stimulus checks sent to most Americans; a variety…
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SBA official: Hacks cost small business average of $500,000
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Maria Roat, CIO for the Small Business Administration, outlines the top cyber threats to small businesses. (Video by Wayne Heilman) Small businesses will spend an average of $500,000 to recover from a cyberattack and more than half wind up shutting down, a top U.S. Small Business Administration said Friday in Colorado Springs. Maria Roat, chief…
