I heard it straight from Rav Pinchas Schienberg zt”l himself. In reference to the unlicensed playgroups and businesses “There is NO heter for breaking the law!”
I got the impression from the way this thread was going and the article on the newspage that we were talking about people who couldn’t make ends meet underreporting their income to get funds and programs they had trouble doing without. While I still see that to be lying and illegal, that seems to be a misrepresentation of what the case is really about.