14 More Publicly Traded Companies Including LiquidPiston Join PPP Recipient Club as More Mom and Pops Get Left Behind
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The latest Securities and Exchange Commission filings show 14 additional publicly traded companies secured over $8.3 million in SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds meant for struggling small businesses on main street. To date, 660 publicly-traded firms or conflicted companies – some worth more than $100 million – have secured $1.7 billion in forgivable PPP loans.
LiquidPiston Latest To Receive PPP Funding
Among the latest recipients is LiquidPiston, which took home over $320,000 in PPP money after crowdfunding over a million dollars in capital in “just nine hours” earlier this year. Sequential Brands Group, Inc. secured a nearly $770,000 loan after paying its executives $5.6 million last year. While the PPP program is designed to help small businesses impacted by the health crisis, Cleanspark Inc. received a $530,000 loan after reporting $26.1 million in losses last year, and Persistent Co. reportedly laid off half its workers in 2019; they join numerous other large companies that received PPP loans that were having ‘financial issues’ before the coronavirus outbreak.
“Small businesses continue to shutter by the thousands every week. Their employees join the tens of millions of American workers who find themselves in dire straits because of this public health crisis. But you wouldn’t know it by the President’s tweets that haven’t mentioned small businesses in days. You wouldn’t know it by his administration’s insistence on protecting the bottom line of publicly traded companies before saving mom and pops on the brink of bankruptcy,” said Jeremy Funk, spokesman for Accountable.US.
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.
Among The Latest Publicly-Traded PPP Recipients:
| LOAN DATE | COMPANY | STATE | LOAN AMOUNT | MOST RECENT EMPLOYEE COUNT |
| 4/24/20 | ClearOne Inc. | UT | $1,500,000 | 127 |
| 5/14/20 | Data Storage Corporation | NY | $481,977 | [unknown] |
| May 2020 | LiquidPiston Inc. | CT | $323,507 | 18 |
| 4/16/20 | Cavitation Technologies Inc. | CA | $104,000 | 5 |
| 5/15/20 | Cleanspark Inc. | UT | $531,169 | 20 |
| 5/18/20 | Sequential Brands Group, Inc. | NY | $769,295 | 42 |
| 4/24/20 | Can B Corp. | NY | $193,250 | 19 |
| 5/5/20 | Professional Diversity Network, Inc. | IL | $651,077 | 50 |
| 5/2/20 | Orbital Energy Group Inc. | TX | $1,924,228 | 257 |
| 4/21/20 | CarrierEQ Inc DE (dba Airfox) | MA | $537,732 | 68 |
| 5/7/20 | Reliant Holdings | TX | $51,113 | 4 |
| May 2020 | BioLargo Inc | CA | $136,000 | 25 |
| May 2020 | XY – The Persistent Co | CA | $987,610 | 17 |
| 4/23/20 | Royale Energy Inc | CA | $207,800 | 12 |
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