Should I Cooperate With Federal Agents About My COVID Loan? | PPP & EIDL Fraud Defense
So your probably freaking out right now because federal agents just contacted you about your PPP or EIDL loan and said they want to talk to you about “a few questions regarding your application.” Maybe they called and said cooperation will help you avoid charges. Maybe they showed up at your house and made it sound like refusing to talk makes you look guilty. Or maybe your sitting there thinking “I didn’t do anything wrong so I should just explain everything and this will go away.” Look, we get it. Your TERRIFIED and your instinct is to cooperate because you think telling your side of the story will clear things up. But here’s what you absolutely need to understand right now: talking to federal agents about your COVID loan without a lawyer is one of the most dangerous decisions you can possibly make, and it can turn a situation where you might have avoided charges into a federal indictment for both loan fraud AND making false statements to federal investigators under 18 U.S.C. § 1001!
We’ve represented hundreds of clients who were contacted by federal agents investigating PPP and EIDL loans, and we’ve seen both scenarios play out. Clients who hired us immediately before talking to investigators often avoided charges entirely because we controlled the narrative and protected there rights. Clients who tried to cooperate without counsel gave investigators the exact statements prosecutors needed to build criminal cases, and they ended up facing multiple felony charges including crimes they created by talking without a lawyer present.
The question of whether to cooperate with federal agents isn’t yes or no, it’s HOW to cooperate and WHEN cooperation makes strategic sense. Cooperation can sometimes reduce your exposure and lead to better outcomes, but cooperation without experienced legal counsel almost always makes things worse. This article explains your constitutional rights when federal agents contact you, why talking without a lawyer is so dangerous, what cooperation actually means in the federal system, when cooperation might make sense, how proffer agreements work, and why you absolutely need our firm to guide any cooperation with federal investigators.
What Are My Rights When Federal Agents Contact Me?
When federal agents contact you about your PPP or EIDL loan, you have powerful constitutional rights that protect you from being forced to incriminate yourself. Understanding these rights is critical because federal agents won’t necessarily inform you of them, and they’ll use psychological tactics to convince you that exercising your rights makes you look guilty.
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives you the absolute right to refuse to answer questions if your answers would tend to incriminate you. This right applies whether your guilty or innocent, and invoking it cannot be used as evidence of guilt in a criminal trial. You don’t have to explain why your refusing to answer questions. You don’t have to prove your entitled to invoke the privilege. You simply state “I’m invoking my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and I want to speak with my attorney.”
The Sixth Amendment gives you the right to have a lawyer represent you in any criminal proceeding, and courts have interpreted this to include the right to counsel during investigative questioning even before formal charges are filed. Once you invoke your right to counsel by stating “I want my lawyer present before I answer any questions,” federal agents must stop questioning you according to Miranda v. Arizona and related case law.
These rights mean you don’t have to talk to federal agents about your COVID loan. Period. You can refuse to answer questions, you can refuse voluntary interviews, and you can require that all communication go through your attorney. The only exception is if you’ve been served with a grand jury subpoena compelling your testimony, in which case you must appear but can still invoke your Fifth Amendment privilege for specific questions.
Federal agents investigating PPP and EIDL fraud know these rights exist, but there trained to convince you not to exercise them. They might say things like “we just want to hear your side of the story,” or “cooperating now will help you later,” or “refusing to talk makes it look like your hiding something.” These are interrogation tactics designed to get you to waive your rights. Don’t fall for them.
What agents won’t tell you is that voluntary cooperation without a lawyer present rarely helps and almost always hurts. They won’t explain that anything you say can be used against you in both civil and criminal proceedings. They won’t mention that making false statements to federal investigators is itself a federal crime carrying up to five years in prison, even if the statement was an honest mistake or memory lapse.
Your rights also include the right to have your attorney present during any questioning. This doesn’t mean you have to hire a lawyer and then talk, it means if you choose to talk at all, your lawyer should be there to protect you. We’ve had clients participate in interviews with federal agents where we were present to stop improper questions, clarify ambiguities, prevent misunderstandings, and ensure the interview was properly documented. This protected participation is completely different from talking to agents alone without counsel.
Why Is Talking to Federal Agents Without a Lawyer So Dangerous?
Talking to federal agents about your PPP or EIDL loan without a lawyer present is dangerous for so many reasons that we could write an entire book on this topic alone. The short answer is that federal agents are professionals trained in getting people to incriminate themselves, and even innocent people with nothing to hide regularly create criminal liability by talking without counsel.
The biggest danger is 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a federal crime to knowingly make any false statement to federal investigators. This statute is a trap that catches thousands of people every year who thought they were cooperating to help themselves. Here’s how it works: federal agents ask you questions about your PPP application that you filled out months or years ago. You answer based on your recollection. But your memory isn’t perfect, especialy under the stress of federal interrogation. You make a statement that turns out to be factually incorrect based on documents or other evidence. Boom – you’ve just committed a federal crime punishable by five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
We’ve seen cases where clients weren’t charged with PPP fraud because prosecutors couldn’t prove the underlying fraud beyond reasonable doubt. But those same clients were convicted of making false statements to federal agents during interviews they thought were helping them. The false statements charges were easier to prove than the fraud charges because the goverment just had to show the client said something during the interview that contradicted documents or other evidence.
What makes Section 1001 especially dangerous is that it covers not just outright lies but also material omissions and technically true but misleading statements. If federal agents ask “did you use any of the PPP funds for personal expenses?” and you say “no” because you forgot about the one time you used business funds (which included some PPP money) to buy gas, that omission can be charged as a false statement. If you answer “I used the money for payroll” but don’t mention that you also used some for rent, prosecutors can argue you made a false statement by omission.
Your memory is not as reliable as you think, especialy when federal agents are asking detailed questions about events from years ago. You filled out your PPP application in April 2020 during a pandemic while stressed about your business surviving. Now it’s 2025 and agents are asking you to recall exact numbers, dates, and calculations. If you say your business had 10 employees when it actually had 12, or you say you calculated your loan amount based on 2019 payroll when you actually used 2020 figures, those memory mistakes become criminal charges.
Federal agents are also allowed to lie to you during interviews. They can claim they have evidence they don’t actually have. They can say other people are cooperating and blaming you even if that’s not true. They can promise leniency if you admit wrongdoing even though they have no authority to make such promises. Without a lawyer present, you won’t recognize these tactics for what they are, and you might make admissions based on false information.
The interview environment is deliberately intimidating and designed to get you talking. Multiple agents, formal settings, implied threats about what happens if you don’t cooperate, suggestions that hiring a lawyer makes you look guilty – all of these tactics pressure people into talking when they should remain silent. We’ve had clients who were completely innocent of fraud but convicted of obstruction or false statements because they panicked during an interview and said things that weren’t accurate.
Another danger is that anything you say can be used not just in the current investigation but in future investigations too. Maybe you make a statement about your business revenues during a PPP fraud interview. That statement gets documented in the agents’ report. Three years later, the IRS investigates you for tax fraud and uses that statement from the PPP interview to prove you underreported income on your tax returns. Your cooperation in one investigation created evidence used against you in a completely different case.
What Does “Cooperation” Actually Mean in Federal Investigations?
Cooperation in federal criminal investigations has a specific meaning that’s very different from what most people imagine. It doesn’t mean being friendly and answering questions to clear up misunderstandings. True cooperation is a formal process negotiated between your attorney and federal prosecutors where you provide information or testimony in exchange for specific benefits like immunity, reduced charges, or sentencing reductions.
Formal cooperation typically involves a proffer agreement, which is a written contract between you and the U.S. Attorney’s Office outlining what information you’ll provide and what limited protections you receive in exchange. These agreements are sometimes called “queen for a day” agreements because they give you limited immunity for one session to tell prosecutors what you know without those specific statements being used directly against you in trial.
Cooperation might mean providing documents that prosecutors request voluntarily instead of forcing them to subpoena materials. It might mean answering written interrogatories or sitting for interviews where you provide information about your own conduct or others involved in fraud schemes. It might mean testifying before a grand jury about what you know. It might mean agreeing to testify at trial against co-defendants if the case goes to trial.
The key distinction is that meaningful cooperation happens AFTER your attorney has evaluated the goverment’s evidence, assessed your exposure, determined what leverage you have, and negotiated specific benefits in exchange for your cooperation. Cooperation is a strategic decision made with full knowledge of the risks and benefits, not a panic reaction to federal agents showing up and asking questions.
Prosecutors value cooperation for several reasons. If you have information about other people’s fraudulent conduct, your cooperation can help them build cases against bigger targets. If you can provide insider knowledge about how fraud schemes worked, your testimony helps prosecutors prove complex cases. If your willing to plead guilty and accept responsibility, it saves the goverment the time and expense of trial.
In exchange for this cooperation, prosecutors might agree not to charge you at all if your role was minor and your testimony against others is valuable. They might agree to charge you with less serious offenses than what the evidence supports. They might agree to recommend reduced sentences under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Section 5K1.1 which allows substantial sentence reductions for defendants who provide substantial assistance.
But cooperation also carries significant risks and costs. Your cooperation might require you to plead guilty to crimes you committed. Your testimony against others might expose you to retaliation or make you a witness in dangerous cases. Your cooperation agreement might require you to testify truthfully about everything you know, including information that incriminates you in other crimes. If you fail to cooperate fully or prosecutors believe you lied during cooperation, they can use everything you told them against you and charge you with additional crimes.
The decision to cooperate isn’t simple and shouldn’t be made without thorough analysis by experienced counsel. We evaluate whether cooperation makes sense based on the strength of the evidence against you, whether you have information valuable enough to prosecutors to warrant significant benefits, what your exposure is if you don’t cooperate, and whether the benefits of cooperation outweigh the risks and costs.
What Is a Proffer Agreement and Should I Sign One?
A proffer agreement, also called a proffer letter or “queen for a day” agreement, is a written contract between you and federal prosecutors that allows you to provide information during a meeting without your statements being used directly against you in the goverment’s case-in-chief at trial. These agreements are common in federal investigations, but they’re widely misunderstood and signing one without fully understanding the limitations can be disastrous.
Here’s how proffer agreements typically work. Your attorney negotiates with prosecutors to set up a proffer session where you’ll meet with agents and prosecutors to tell them what you know. Before the meeting, everyone signs a proffer agreement outlining the ground rules. The standard proffer agreement provides that statements you make during the session cannot be used against you in the goverment’s case-in-chief at trial. This is called “use immunity.”
But this protection is much more limited than most people realize. While prosecutors can’t use your exact words against you at trial, they CAN use any investigative leads they develop from what you tell them. This is called “derivative use.” So if you tell prosecutors during a proffer that you deposited PPP funds into a specific bank account, they can’t testify at your trial that you admitted depositing the funds, but they CAN subpoena that bank account and use those records against you at trial.
Proffer agreements also typically include exceptions that allow the goverment to use your statements against you in several circumstances. If you testify at trial and say something inconsistent with what you said in the proffer, prosecutors can use your proffer statements to impeach your trial testimony. If you make false statements during the proffer session, you can be charged with making false statements under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and your proffer statements can be used in that prosecution. If you commit perjury at trial, your proffer statements can be used to prove the perjury.
The agreement also waives your protections under Federal Rule of Evidence 410, which normally prevents prosecutors from using statements made during plea negotiations against you. By signing the proffer agreement, your giving up this protection and allowing the goverment to use your statements in the ways outlined in the agreement.
Whether you should sign a proffer agreement depends entirely on your specific situation and must be decided with guidance from experienced federal defense counsel. Proffers can make sense when prosecutors are unlikely to charge you without your cooperation and you have valuable information to provide. When you need to convince prosecutors that what looks like fraud was actually a good faith mistake. When your role was minor and your testimony against others is valuable enough to warrant non-prosecution or charge reduction. When the goverment’s evidence against you is so strong that cooperation is your only realistic option for avoiding maximum penalties.
But proffers are risky and should be avoided when the goverment’s evidence is weak and they need your admissions to build there case. When you don’t have information valuable enough to warrant significant benefits. When your likely to make statements that contradict other evidence and expose you to false statement charges. When your memory of events is unclear and you might make innocent misstatements that become criminal charges.
Before any proffer session, we prepare clients extensively. We review every document related to your case. We identify what questions prosecutors are likely to ask and practice how to answer truthfully while minimizing unnecessary admissions. We discuss what topics you should avoid and when to defer to counsel. We ensure you understand that every statement must be completely truthful because any false statement destroys the proffer protection and creates new criminal liability.
During the proffer session, we’re there to protect you. We stop improper questions. We clarify ambiguous questions before you answer. We call breaks to consult privately when difficult issues arise. We ensure your statements are properly documented. And we evaluate whether the proffer is going well or whether we should terminate the session before you say something damaging.
When Does Cooperation Make Strategic Sense?
Cooperation with federal investigators can sometimes be the right strategic decision, but only in specific circumstances and only when negotiated properly through experienced counsel. Understanding when cooperation makes sense versus when it’s a mistake helps you make informed decisions about how to handle your PPP or EIDL fraud investigation.
Cooperation makes sense when your a minor participant in a larger fraud scheme and you have valuable information about the main targets. If you were a low-level employee who helped prepare fraudulent loan applications but didn’t mastermind the scheme, prosecutors might be willing to give you immunity or charge you with minimal offenses in exchange for testimony against your boss. Your cooperation helps them build cases against bigger fish while giving you a chance to avoid serious charges.
Cooperation can be beneficial when the evidence against you is overwhelming and your only question is how much prison time your facing. If prosecutors have bank records, emails, witness statements, and documents proving you committed fraud, cooperation might be your only path to reduced sentences. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines provide substantial sentence reductions for defendants who provide substantial assistance to prosecutors. We’ve had clients facing 10 years who cooperated effectively and received 18-month sentences instead.
Early cooperation before charges are filed can sometimes prevent prosecution entirely. If we approach prosecutors proactively when we learn your under investigation, present exculpatory evidence, demonstrate your cooperation and remorse, and offer to make restitution, prosecutors might decide not to file charges. This proactive cooperation strategy works when the case is still in early investigative stages and prosecutors haven’t invested substantial resources in building the case yet.
Cooperation makes sense when you genuinely made mistakes rather than committed intentional fraud and you can provide evidence supporting your good faith. If you relied on your accountant’s advice and have communications showing you tried to comply with the rules, cooperation allows you to present this evidence directly to prosecutors. If you misunderstood the complex and confusing SBA guidance during the pandemic chaos, explaining this through controlled cooperation can convince prosecutors you lacked criminal intent.
Cooperation can be strategically valuable when your willing to plead guilty to some charges but want to negotiate which charges and what sentence recommendations prosecutors will make. Plea negotiations almost always involve some level of cooperation where you provide information about your conduct, accept responsibility, and possibly provide information about others in exchange for favorable plea terms.
However, cooperation does NOT make sense in many common situations. Don’t cooperate when the goverment’s evidence is weak and they need your admissions to build there case. Don’t cooperate when you haven’t done anything wrong and your just trying to clear up misunderstandings – this almost always backfires. Don’t cooperate without a lawyer no matter how friendly the agents seem or how much they promise it will help you. Don’t cooperate when your memory of events is unclear and you might make innocent misstatements. Don’t cooperate when you don’t have information valuable enough to warrant meaningful benefits from prosecutors.
The decision to cooperate must be based on careful analysis of multiple factors including the strength of evidence against you, what information you have that’s valuable to prosecutors, what benefits cooperation might realistically achieve, what risks cooperation creates, and whether cooperation aligns with your goals and values. We evaluate all these factors before advising clients about cooperation strategies.
How Should Cooperation Work If I Decide to Do It?
If cooperation is the right strategy for your situation, it must be done properly through your attorney with carefully negotiated protections and clear benefits. Cooperation without these safeguards is just giving prosecutors ammunition to use against you while getting nothing meaningful in return.
The first step is having your attorney communicate with federal prosecutors to determine if cooperation is even possible and what the goverment might be willing to offer in exchange. We explain that your interested in exploring cooperation, ask what information prosecutors are seeking, and inquire what benefits might be available if you provide substantial assistance. This preliminary negotiation happens before you’ve committed to anything and allows us to assess whether cooperation is worth pursuing.
If prosecutors are receptive, we negotiate a proffer agreement with specific protections outlined in writing. We carefully review the agreement to ensure it provides appropriate use immunity, limits the exceptions where your statements can be used against you, and clarifies what topics will be covered during the proffer session. We don’t let you sign vague or overly broad agreements that give prosecutors unlimited ability to use your statements.
Before any proffer session, we prepare you extensively through multiple meetings where we review all evidence, discuss what questions prosecutors will likely ask, practice how to answer truthfully while protecting your interests, identify topics where you should invoke the Fifth Amendment or defer to counsel, and ensure you understand the stakes and risks of every statement you make.
During the proffer session itself, we’re present to protect you throughout the meeting. We’re not passive observers, we actively participate by clarifying questions, stopping improper inquiries, calling breaks when needed, and ensuring your statements are accurately documented. If the proffer starts going badly, we terminate the session before you say something that destroys your defense.
After the proffer, we follow up with prosecutors to determine what benefits your cooperation earned. Did they agree not to charge you? Will they charge reduced offenses? What sentence recommendations will they make? Are there additional cooperation requirements? We get these commitments in writing before you fulfill additional cooperation obligations like grand jury testimony or trial testimony.
Throughout the cooperation process, we maintain control over how much information you provide and in what format. We don’t let prosecutors conduct unlimited fishing expeditions through open-ended questioning. We focus cooperation on specific topics that advance your strategic goals. We protect privileged information and irrelevant personal matters. We ensure cooperation stays within the negotiated scope.
If cooperation includes pleading guilty to charges, we negotiate the plea agreement carefully to ensure it reflects the cooperation you’ve provided. The agreement should specify what charges your pleading to, what the goverment’s sentencing recommendations will be, whether they’ll file a 5K1.1 motion for substantial assistance departure, and what additional cooperation obligations you have. We don’t accept vague promises or understandings that aren’t memorialized in binding written agreements.
After you plead guilty based on cooperation, we continue working to ensure prosecutors follow through on there commitments. We monitor whether they file the promised sentencing motions. We prepare detailed sentencing memoranda documenting your cooperation and requesting the sentence reductions you were promised. We hold prosecutors accountable if they try to back out of cooperation agreements.
The bottom line is that cooperation is a complex legal and strategic process that requires experienced counsel at every stage. Self-directed cooperation or cooperation without proper protections almost always fails and often creates additional criminal liability instead of reducing it.
What Happens If I Lie or Make Mistakes During Cooperation?
Making false statements during cooperation with federal investigators is catastrophic and can transform a situation where cooperation might have helped you into a disaster where your facing additional serious federal charges. Understanding what constitutes a false statement and how prosecutors use lies during cooperation is critical for anyone considering cooperation.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, it’s a federal crime to knowingly and willfully make false statements to federal investigators. This statute applies fully during cooperation including proffer sessions, interviews, grand jury testimony, and any other communication with federal agents or prosecutors. The penalties include up to five years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines, and these charges are often stacked on top of whatever underlying charges your already facing.
What makes this especially dangerous during cooperation is that proffer agreements specifically exclude false statements from the use immunity protection. Standard proffer language states that if you make any false statement during the session, the goverment can use everything you said against you and can charge you with making false statements. So lying during a proffer destroys all the protections the agreement was supposed to provide.
The definition of “false statement” is much broader than outright lies. It includes technically true but misleading statements designed to deceive. Material omissions where you leave out critical facts. Statements you believe are true but are actually false based on documents or evidence. Even innocent mistakes or memory lapses can be charged as false statements if prosecutors believe you should have known the truth.
We’ve seen cases where clients made innocent mistakes during proffers – stating there business had 10 employees when it actually had 12, saying they used all PPP funds for payroll when they forgot about using some for rent, claiming they never commingled business and personal funds when bank records showed occasional overlap. Prosecutors charged these misstatements as separate crimes under Section 1001 even though they appeared to be honest errors.
The consequences of false statements during cooperation extend beyond the additional criminal charges. Your cooperation agreement becomes void and prosecutors can use everything you told them against you. Any benefits you were promised like charge reductions or sentencing recommendations get withdrawn. Your credibility is destroyed if the case goes to trial because prosecutors will tell the jury you lied during cooperation. And judges view defendants who lied during cooperation very harshly at sentencing, often imposing significantly longer sentences.
Perjury charges under 18 U.S.C. § 1621 are even more serious if your cooperation involves grand jury testimony or sworn statements. Perjury carries up to five years per count, and prosecutors aggressively charge perjury when they catch someone lying under oath during cooperation. The standard of proof is slightly different for perjury than false statements, but the practical result is the same – additional felony charges and destroyed cooperation value.
This is why preparation before cooperation is so critical. We spend hours reviewing documents, refreshing your memory about events, identifying areas where your recollection is unclear, and practicing how to say “I don’t recall” when you genuinely don’t remember rather than guessing and potentially making false statements. We ensure you understand that every statement must be completely accurate or you should defer the question to review documents before answering.
During cooperation sessions, we watch for questions where your answer might be incomplete or potentially inaccurate. We stop you before you make statements based on uncertain memories. We call breaks to review documents when specific details are asked. We ensure you don’t feel pressured to answer immediately when you need time to think or check records.
If you do make a false statement during cooperation, immediate corrective action is essential. We can sometimes mitigate the damage by immediately recognizing the error, correcting it before the session ends or in follow-up communication, demonstrating it was an honest mistake rather than intentional deception, and providing documentation showing what the truth actually is. While this doesn’t eliminate the risk of false statement charges, it reduces the likelihood prosecutors will view it as deliberate lying worthy of additional charges.
Why You Absolutely Need Our Firm Before Cooperating
Making decisions about cooperation with federal agents investigating your PPP or EIDL loan without experienced legal counsel is legal and strategic malpractice that almost always ends badly. The complexity of federal cooperation, the risks of false statement charges, and the need for careful negotiation of proffer agreements require specialized expertise that generalist attorneys don’t possess.
Our firm has extensive experience representing clients in PPP and EIDL fraud investigations and we know exactly when cooperation makes sense and how to negotiate favorable cooperation agreements. We’ve guided dozens of clients through the cooperation process successfully, achieving outcomes ranging from declination to charge reductions to substantial sentence reductions that saved years of prison time.
We evaluate whether cooperation is right for you based on thorough analysis of your specific situation. We obtain and review all evidence prosecutors have against you through discovery, grand jury transcripts, or voluntary disclosures. We assess the strength of the goverment’s case and what your exposure is if you don’t cooperate. We determine whether you have information valuable enough to warrant meaningful benefits. We evaluate your goals and whether cooperation aligns with achieving those goals.
If cooperation makes sense, we negotiate proffer agreements and cooperation deals that protect your interests while providing prosecutors with what they need. We ensure use immunity provisions are as broad as possible. We limit exceptions that allow the goverment to use your statements. We get specific commitments about what benefits cooperation will earn. We put everything in writing so there’s no misunderstanding about the terms.
We prepare you extensively before any cooperation sessions through detailed preparation meetings, document review, practice sessions where we simulate the types of questions prosecutors will ask, and clear explanations of what you must do to protect yourself during cooperation. Our preparation ensures you understand the stakes, know how to answer truthfully without making unnecessary admissions, and recognize when to invoke the Fifth Amendment or defer to counsel.
During cooperation sessions, we protect you actively by participating in questioning, clarifying ambiguous questions, stopping improper inquiries, calling breaks when needed, and ensuring accurate documentation of what you said. We’re not passive observers letting prosecutors interrogate you however they want, we’re active advocates managing the cooperation process to achieve your objectives while minimizing risks.
After cooperation, we hold prosecutors accountable for delivering the benefits they promised. We ensure cooperation agreements are honored at sentencing. We file detailed memoranda documenting your substantial assistance. We argue for maximum credit for cooperation under the sentencing guidelines. We push back when prosecutors try to minimize the value of your cooperation or back out of commitments.
Throughout the entire process, we’re evaluating whether cooperation continues to make sense or whether circumstances have changed requiring different strategies. If cooperation isn’t achieving the expected benefits, we advise you about alternatives. If prosecutors are using cooperation to extract more information than the agreement requires, we push back. If your cooperation is valuable but prosecutors aren’t offering adequate benefits, we negotiate harder or explore other options.
The cost of hiring experienced federal defense counsel to handle cooperation properly is minimal compared to the potential consequences of cooperating without counsel. We’ve seen clients who tried to cooperate on there own end up with additional false statement charges, destroyed defenses, and outcomes far worse than if they’d never cooperated. We’ve had clients come to us after botched cooperation attempts by less experienced attorneys, and the damage was often irreparable.
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The decision about whether to cooperate with federal agents investigating your PPP or EIDL loan is one of the most important strategic choices you’ll make in your case. Get it right with experienced counsel guiding you, and cooperation might save you from prison or eliminate charges entirely. Get it wrong by cooperating without a lawyer, and you’ll create criminal liability that didn’t exist before. Don’t take that risk. Contact our firm today and let us evaluate whether cooperation makes sense for you and guide the process properly if it does.