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Mississippi Billionaire Under PPP Fraud Investigation

The richest man in Mississippi, Tom Duff, and his brother James Duff, have been under a Justice Department investigation for potentially defrauding a federal pandemic-era relief program of $6.7 million since 2024, court records show.

A lawsuit filed against the brothers by Relator LLC claims the two “looted the government” by filing “falsified loan documents to the Small Business Administration in order to obtain taxpayer-funded payments through the Paycheck Protection Program.”

The case will move to Mississippi after a federal judge in March granted the Duffs’ motion to transfer the case.

According to the documents, the brothers applied for the loans using their tire company, the Southern Tire Mart, which is valued at upward of........

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