TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 3, 2021

A state legislator under federal investigation received a federal pandemic business loan, but has said he did not use it for his legislative race, the Tennessean reports. In April, Rep. Todd Warner, R-Chapel Hill, received a $149,630 Paycheck Protection Program loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration for his business PCS of TN LLC, which provides grading and utility services at construction sites. Warner says he used the PPP loan for allowable expenses at the business and financed his campaign with a personal loan from a local bank. Warner ousted former Rep. Rick Tillis in an August Republican primary, a bitter race that ultimately resulted in a complaint filed with state campaign finance officials about who funded attack ads against Tillis and how Warner paid for his campaign.