White Supremacist Group Gets New Life in Loan Forgiveness Suit

The Small Business Administration failed to tie together a White supremacist group’s philosophy and its hiring practices to explain the agency’s reasoning for refusing to forgive the group’s Paycheck Protection Program loan, a federal court said.

Though she found New Century Foundation’s philosophy “abhorrent,” Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan said Monday that the SBA must sufficiently articulate on remand a reason for finding that the group’s views underlie a discriminatory employment policy. The group expressed in its materials that non-White people are inferior and that the races should be segregated.

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