Maine organic farm no one has heard of got a $1.2 million federal relief loan

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 8, 2020

So-called Common Ground Organic Farm LLC, allegedly based in Bridgton, received a loan of nearly $1.2 million through the Paycheck Protection Program, according to records released by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The company supposedly employed 91 people. But no such company is registered in Maine, the local insurance firm that occupies the address said it has never heard of a business by that name, and the bank listed as the lender on the emergency loan disclosure said it never made a loan to the company.