Criminal
Nov. 25, 2020
DAs report $1B unemployment fraud involving prisoners
The scale of the alleged scheme is so grand that “the reality is that the vast majority of this money can never be repaid,” said El Dorado County District Attorney Vern R. Pierson.
A task force of California prosecutors said they have evidence that thousands of fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims have been filed under the names of federal and state prison inmates and those detained in county jails -- a scheme so massive that they estimate the state has already paid nearly $1 billion on the claims.
"We believe at this point it is the largest taxpayer fraud that's ever occurred in California history," El D...
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