A California church with hundreds of guests has actually gotten just over $340,000 in Income Defense Program forgivable federal loans while likewise being fined more than $1 million for defying public health orders versus holding indoor events in the middle of the rising COVID-19 pandemic.
Calvary Chapel San Jose went forward with an indoor Christmas Eve service despite Santa Clara County’s public health order against such events, NBC Bay Location reported Thursday night. The northern California church had currently acquired fines of more than $1 million for previous offenses of state health orders. Calvary Chapel has actually benefitted from an April PPP loan of $340,400– about 3 times as much as other spiritual companies in the Bay Location, according to an analysis by KGO-TV.
” It’s bothering to hear that an institution that is thumbing its nose at the courts and at the general public health orders from the state and local levels is concurrently turning around and taking taxpayer money from the federal government,” Santa Clara County counsel James Williams told KGO. “That’s quite concerning and a bit paradoxical.”
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