Sacramento woman pleads guilty to stealing identities and inventing fake jobs in EDD fraud
A Sacramento woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to aggravated identity theft and mail fraud in connection with a scheme prosecutors say stole $2.6 million in COVID-era benefits from the state’s ...
Indiana man used Evansville addresses to bilk state unemployment insurance
A federal judge sentenced a Greenwood, Indiana, man Wednesday to a lengthy prison term for what prosecutors described as a ...
Boston woman sentenced for committing COVID unemployment fraud, part of larger racketeering scheme
Gross pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in September and was sentenced Thursday to one day of jail time, followed by three years of supervised release, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
Opinion - Congress must prevent a mass-amnesty for COVID fraud
That’s because this March, the five-year statute of limitations on COVID-era fraud prosecution is set to expire. Criminals ...
Ex-Massachusetts Sen. Dean Tran to spend 1.5 years in federal prison for fraud
Former Fitchburg Massachusetts state Senator Dean Tran will spend a year and a half in federal prison for unemployment ...