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RumbleOn Uses PPP Loan to Maintain Generous Executive Compensation

By Anna Peel. Originally published at ValueWalk.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – While one in five small businesses say they are two months or less away from closing for good as thousands continue running into bureaucratic barriers to the Trump administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), large companies keep coasting through the process. Last week’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings show at least 27 additional publicly-traded companies secured over $40 million in PPP funds meant for struggling small businesses. The figure includes at least one foreign-based company and at least two companies that have more than 500 employees.


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“Week after week, the Trump administration serves up millions in PPP taxpayer money to big businesses and at least one foreign company while truly small businesses continue to struggle,” said Derek Martin, spokesperson for Accountable.US. “The President may be ready to declare ‘Mission Accomplished’ on efforts to fix the pandemic economy, but with 100,000 small businesses already gone, and 13.3% unemployment, this is no time for celebration.”

RumbleOn Secures $5.1 million PPP Loan

Thus far, at least 722 publicly-traded firms or conflicted companies —some worth more than $100 million —have secured over $1.85 billion in forgivable PPP loans. Several previous PPP recipients have since raised eyebrows about whether they truly needed federal aid before so many actual struggling small businesses that were turned away. Joining them is RumbleOn, Inc. a company that secured a more than $5.1 million PPP loan last month and then quietly revealed in recent days that the money is an excuse to reverse plans to cut back its executive compensation packages. Their CEO made $560,000 last year alone.

While the PPP program is designed to help mom-and-pops impacted by the health crisis, the latest PPP winners included China-based Xynomic Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc., which secured a $177,000 loan. In addition, Gordon Pointe Acquisition Corp. took home a $390,000 loan after announcing a $390 million partnership deal last year to create a “premier sports, entertainment and media enterprise surrounding the prestigious Pro Football Hall of Fame.”  And Christopher & Banks Corporation received $10 million in PPP money meant for small businesses despite employing 3,800 people and paying out a $3.5 million dividend to shareholders last year.

These filings were compiled as part of an ongoing tracking project by government watchdog Accountable.US. TrumpBailouts.org documents the billion-dollar corporations and other large companies that have received taxpayer assistance under the CARES Act, and what advantages and assets they had going into the COVID-19 crisis that most small businesses could never access.

Last Week’s Publicly Traded PPP Beneficiaries:

LOAN DATE COMPANY LOAN AMOUNT STATE EMPLOYEE COUNT
5/1/20 Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies, Inc. $211,000 NY 12
5/4/20 Cool Technologies, Inc. $52,612 FL 5
5/5/20 OriginClear, Inc. $345,000 TX 24
5/8/20 Financial Gravity Companies Inc. $283,345 TX 17
April 2020 DPW Holdings Inc. $715,101 CA 210
April 2020 Video Display Corporation $1,000,000 GA 84
May 2020 FAT Brands Inc. $1,500,000 CA 58
[unspecified] International Stem Cell CORP $654,000 CA 41
4/11/20 Harbor Custom Development $582,800 WA 40
4/30/20 Xynomic Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. $177,700 NON-US: Shanghai, China 35
5/05/20 Applied Minerals Inc. $223,075 NY 11
5/29/20 SANUWAVE Health, Inc. $454,335 GA 23
April 2020 Yunhong CTI Ltd $1,000,000 IL 380
May 2020 Alpine 4 Technologies Ltd. $3,761,866 AZ 274
5/20 AYRO Inc. $218,000 TX 6
6/1/20 Bowl America Incorporated $1,500,000 VA 500
6/2/20 Christopher & Banks Corporation $10,000,000 MN 3,800
5/22/20 Nicholas Financial Inc $3,243,900 FL 279
4/9/20 Goedeker Inc $642,600 MO 67
5/8/20 Odyssey Group International Inc $50,000 CA 3
5/26/20 B2Digital, Inc $15,600 FL 1
4/16/20 Vystar Corporation $1,402,900 MA 1
5/20/20 AeroCentury Corp. $276,353 FL 10
4/17/20 Verb Technology Company, Inc. $1,218,000 CA 91
4/22/20 Gordon Pointe Acquisition Corp $390,400 FL 2
4/20 May J W Inc (aka J.W. MAYS, INC.) $722,726 NY 29
[unspecified] Amyris Inc $9,999,995 CA 561

Small Business Left Behind

Well over 700 publicly-traded firms or conflicted companies – some worth more than $100 million – have walked away with over a billion and a half dollars in taxpayer money.


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