Dem senator’s wife’s bookstore settles COVID fund allegations for $1.5M

Fox News correspondent CB Cotton reports on Strand Bookstore — owned by Sen. Ron Wyden’s wife Nancy Bass Wyden — agreeing to pay nearly $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it improperly received COVID-19 relief funds on ‘America Reports.’

Strand Bookstore — owned by Nancy Bass Wyden, wife of Sen. Ron Wyden — agrees to pay nearly $1.5 million to settle allegations involving a COVID-19 relief loan. The Justice Department says the bookstore improperly received a $932,350 second-draw Paycheck Protection Program loan despite federal rules barring businesses controlled by members of Congress or their spouses from receiving those funds.