California inmates part of $1B unemployment fraud schemes, prosecutors say
A multi-agency investigation found that 35,000 unemployment claims were filed in the name of California state prison inmates and that 20,000 have already been paid.
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They are unemployed because they are in prison. Hello? Anyone home, McFlys?
Duh
Sophisticated crime rings involving inmates in California's jails and prisons may have stolen upwards of $1 billion in pandemic unemployment aid, four district attorneys and a federal prosecutor announced Tuesday.