Hey, this was great! Really enjoyed the atmosphere around it. Look forward to what you do next.

glad to see you here king

Read more here: businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-chris-brown-covid-relief-funds-svog-grant-2024-12

We also found white collar folks like lawyers, managers, etc raking it in. Lil Wayne's grant paid $5.3M to managers, accountants & attorneys - 13 times what went to his drummer, sound techs & other contractors who actually put on his shows.

When we reached out to Lil Wayne for comment, he... made a sexually explicit overture to our reporter. Chuck Schumer, who championed this on Corden as helping "middle-class people" and "young artists," later got a Grammy award for creating the program, declined to comment.

Inside the SBA, employees who worked on the program were told "shut up, sit down, process the file." Only $43M of money has been recouped. That number hasn't budged since July.

David Walker, former US comptroller general, reviewed our findings and said, "At a minimum, it smells." One firm, NKSFB, helped clients get $207M(!) in grants. When staff called it "bullshit" internally & worried about perjury, leadership spun it as "outside-the-box thinking." Their cut: $7M

Alice in Chains members paid themselves $3.4M right after making $48M selling their catalog. Their longtime guitar tech Scott Dachroeden — exactly who this grant was meant to help — had to use GoFundMe when he got cancer. He died shortly after, uninsured.

Lil Wayne got $8.9M in taxpayer money and spent it on private jets ($1.3M), designer clothes ($460k), and luxury hotels. He even billed $88k for a NYE show he ghosted. Chris Brown used COVID funds to throw an $80k birthday party with "atmosphere models" and $29k in bottle service.