Dr. Kiran Patel’s companies got PPP loans worth more than $19 million.


But Kyle Herrig, president of the nonpartisan watchdog group Accountable.US, which tracks federal pandemic spending, said allowing for multiple loans is not sound policy. That sort of provision, he said, inevitably benefits larger organizations with more resources — especially those that got loans in April, when smaller businesses were burning through cash on hand.

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