The porn industry in Los Angeles came up with its own testing system and database in the 1990s to protect actors during the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Now it is using that system to develop protocols for making adult entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"When we first starting talking about COVID, we felt very well prepared because we have a whole history of testing within the industry as well as contact tracing and production shut-downs," said Mike Stabile, spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the U.S. adult entertainment industry.

This? Porn? You think that I'm watching porn? Oh my, surely you misunderstand. I am not watching porn, which I find undignified and beneath contempt and an accusation that I will not respond to, nay, I will not even entertain! Oh no, I am doing my Due Diligence on a brilliant article that veteran Wall Street lawyer and bon vivant Bill Singer wrote the other day about how Wall Street and Hollywood are considering the lessons derived by the porn industry during the 1990s HIV/AIDs epidemic, which, if you think about it, has many parallels and lessons for we who are now dealing with the COVID pandemic. Mr. Singer's provocative yet brilliant commentary prompted me to conduct an online investigation, which brought me to this very video that you mistake as being viewed by me for some deviant purpose. To the contrary, I am deep into working from home and am simply following the leads that Mr. Singer, a well-known and devilishly handsome Wall Street lawyer, has presented to his readers. Frankly, you owe me an apology!"

[F]ayne is the sole owner of a Georgia corporation called Flame Trucking.  On April 15, 2020, Fayne signed and submitted to United Community Bank (UCB) a PPP loan application in the name of Flame Trucking stating that the business had 107 employees and an average monthly payroll of $1,490,200.  In seeking a loan in the amount of $3,725,500, Fayne certified that the loan proceeds would be used to "retain workers and maintain payroll or make mortgage interest payments, lease payments, and utility payments, as specified under the Paycheck Protection Program Rule."

UCB ultimately funded the loan for $2,045,800.  Within days, Fayne allegedly used more than $1.5 million of the PPP loan proceeds to purchase $85,000 in jewelry, including a Rolex Presidential watch, a diamond bracelet, a 5.73 carat diamond ring for himself, and to pay $40,000 for child support.  Such payments are not an authorized use of PPP funds under the CARES Act.

On May 6, 2020, Fayne was interviewed by federal agents and admitted that he submitted a PPP loan application on behalf of Flame Trucking.  Fayne claimed that he used all of the PPP loan proceeds to pay payroll and other business expenses incurred by Flame Trucking and denied using any of the PPP loan proceeds to pay his personal debts and expenses.           

On May 11, 2020, agents executed a search at Fayne's residence in Dacula and seized approximately $80,000 in cash, including $9,400 that Fayne had in his pockets, and the jewelry he purchased with the PPP funds, and further discovered a 2019 Rolls-Royce Wraith, which still had a temporary dealer tag on it.  Agents also executed seizure warrants for three bank accounts that Fayne owned or controlled and seized approximately $503,000 in PPP funds.

In Louisiana, Harrell bought a list of 13,000 stolen identities of children who were on Louisiana's Medicaid program. Harrell used the data to bilk Louisiana's Medicaid program out of more than a half-million dollars in mental health services never provided.

He tried to make his companies look legitimate. Harrell had offices and employees, although those employees didn't provide care-they simply engaged in fake billing. Harrell even kept patient "charts" sitting on the shelf at his offices in case of an audit.

Okay, so if you're a loyal reader of CNN Business (and we hope you are!) you might have seen a headline Tuesday that said "Prices are falling at an alarming rate." Or a headline today that said producers' prices fell by a record amount.

That probably feels ... off to you. And for a good reason: Every time you go to the grocery store, that number at the end of the receipt keeps getting bigger.

Both things are true. . . .

In the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, customers stockpiled food, toilet paper and other essentials for prolonged stays at home. They shopped for different kinds of items, such as hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes to stay healthy, computer monitors to set up home offices and supplies to help kids attend school remotely. And they began filling up bigger baskets as they avoided stores or made less frequent shopping trips.

Since then, the financial picture has become bleaker. Unemployment has risen to 14.7%, after 20.5 million people lost their jobs in April alone. The total number of jobless claims is up to 33.5 million over the past seven weeks. Pay cuts have squeezed family budgets. Even those with the same income may feel uneasy, as they read unemployment reports or see neighbors, family or friends get furloughed or laid off.

This shift away from China would be indicative of a wider trend, the report said, as global firms looked for ways to build up their resilience following the supply shock induced by the coronavirus.

"By building quasi-independent regional supply chains in the Americas and Europe, a global company will provide a hedge against future shocks to their network," the EIU said. "For those companies that have this luxury already, they have been able to shift production of key components from one region to another as lockdowns and factory closures resulting from coronavirus have unfolded."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and fellow progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have proposed "The Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act," which would "stop large corporations from exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to engage in harmful mergers." It would place a moratorium on deals for companies with more than $100 million in revenue, as well as some private equity funds and hedge funds.

"We haven't seen the legislative language, so we can't have any official position on it," Delharim told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday. "However, I think it would be misguided to just block all attempts for transactions."