A marketing company owned by Ja’Mal Green, one of eight challengers trying to unseat Mayor Lori Lightfoot in Chicago’s Feb. 28 election, steered small businesses seeking COVID-19 relief loans to three lenders that were faulted in a congressional report last year for having turned a blind eye to fraud.
Green says his Majostee Marketing — which also rents out coach buses — was paid a fee by those lenders for each of the hundreds of applicants it helped with a loan request under the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
