Luke Rosiak, a fine reporter at the Daily Wire, has uncovered an explosive story about the Biden Administration’s conspiracy to funnel $90 million in forgivable small business loans during the COVID pandemic.
They knew Planned Parenthood was not eligible, so in order to hide the transactions, they created a codename for the organization to hide their discussions from FOIA requests, violating the law.
Ernst said there was no reason to use a code word except to hide the records from FOIA and Capitol Hill, and asked the DOJ to open a criminal investigation that could lead to jail time. READ:https://t.co/o8tBe9CvAi
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) April 27, 2026
Credit where credit is due: Joni Ernst ferreted out the scheme, which is yet another example of the massive Democratic fraud that was enabled by the COVID “emergency.”
It all began when the floodgates for forgivable loans were opened in 2020, and the Trump administration was so eager to throw money out the door to keep the economy going during the horrific shutdown that they allowed “small businesses” to “self-certify” their eligibility for the loans.
Trump’s biggest mistakes were during COVID.
What’s Benghazi have to do with Planned Parenthood?
That’s what I’m asking @TheJusticeDept after records reveal Biden officials concealed all their Planned Parenthood meetings and discussions with codeword “Benghazi.”
If this was done to evade congressional oversight into their…
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) April 27, 2026
Planned Parenthood fraudulently self-certified that they were eligible, and the loans were disbursed. But when the books were examined, again during the Trump administration, the organization was informed that they were not eligible and that they should return the money.
They didn’t, and once the election happened the Biden folks conspired to let them keep the money, and even threw more at them.
Biden administration officials may have broken the law by concealing small business loans to Planned Parenthood, a senator said Monday.
Small Business Administration officials disbursed and forgave loans to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates even after the agency determined that the group is not a small business that would be eligible. Top officials, including Biden SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman, concealed their maneuvering on the topic by substituting the words Planned Parenthood with “Benghazi” in emails, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who chairs the committee that oversees the agency, revealed Monday.
“We now know that after the SBA Biden officials met, planned and strategized (over ‘Benghazi’), keeping the White House involved, approximately $90 million in Planned Parenthood SBA PPP loans and interest on the loans were forgiven by the Biden administration,” she said.
Ernst asked the Department of Justice to investigate the officials under a statute that says anyone who attempts to conceal a federal record can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire.
In the early days of the 2020 pandemic, the first Trump administration’s Small Business Administration sent more than $80 million in COVID loans reserved for small businesses to Planned Parenthood and 38 affiliates after they “self-certified” as eligible.
More than 90 Republican members of Congress wrote to the agency, noting that “under the rules of the CARES ACT, a nonprofit that exceeds 500 employees, as Planned Parenthood did, was not a small business and should be deemed ‘disqualified from PPP loans.’” Under SBA rules, entities that are “affiliated” with a larger entity aren’t small businesses.
I would love to know how the Biden folks came up with the codename “Benghazi.” Perhaps they see a connection between murdering babies and the Obama-era fiasco that left Americans dead, or perhaps it was a tribute to Hillary Clinton.
If you think this tactic seems reminiscent of organized crime, that’s because the Biden administration was a criminal organization.
It was, of course, the agency lawyer who organized this criminal conspiracy to hide illegal loans to Planned Parenthood, because that is how Democrat lawyers roll.
In April 2021, Republicans demanded to know “the steps the agency took once Planned Parenthood affiliates were deemed ineligible for SBA loans,” she wrote.
That month, the SBA’s top lawyer, Peggy Hamilton, convened top honchos with an email subject line “Benghazi (PPP/PPH) Decisions.” The context suggested that Benghazi was a code word for Planned Parenthood.
The email tasked staff with “reviewing loans to non profit PPP applicants to decision whether affiliation bars eligibility… WH has been engaged. Need to inform WH as decisions are made.”
In a direct message, Hamilton reminded a colleague of the code, writing, “Can I schedule a meeting so we can decision Benghazi (Planned Parenthood)?”
“Yes, let’s talk Benghazi,” came the reply.
The conspiracy, though, seems to have gone all the way to the White House, which again is no surprise.
Ernst noted, “If someone tried to search for government records related to Planned Parenthood’s loans and loan forgiveness … this meeting would not have appeared, as again it was concealed as Benghazi.”
“PPH” is not an acronym used for the abortion provider, which is sometimes initialized PPFA, for Planned Parenthood for America, she said.
“If other SBA Biden officials are complicit in conspiring with SBA’s General Counsel Peggy Hamilton and Administration Guzman to conceal or attempt to conceal federal records and evade public records retention laws, that is in clear violation of 18 U.S.C. S2017 and deserves investigation for potential Federal Records Act violations,” Ernst said.
Luke’s story seems to indicate that the violation that might stick is the breaking of the federal records law. I’m not sure why conspiring to just hand over $90 million in forgivable loans to an ineligible organization wouldn’t be, but I am no lawyer.
It should be.
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