Illegal Immigrants Steal Millions in Unemployment Benefits With Help From Chicago-Area Woman

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

Undocumented immigrants steal millions of dollars in unemployment benefits with help from a Chicago-area woman

Leticia Garcia set up her garage in a Chicago suburb to look like a bustling home office, outfitting it with computers, employees and posted business hours. But the grandmother was actually conducting a simple unemployment insurance scam, one that stole almost $7 million from the state of Illinois, attracted a federal investigation and on Monday earned Garcia a four-year prison sentence.

Garcia would pass out business cards at gas stations and on some days 10 to 15 people would walk into her office and hire her to file unemployment insurance claims for them, according to court papers filed by federal prosecutors. Many of her clients were Mexican-born immigrants without lawful immigration status or work permits, which made them ineligible for unemployment benefits.

The Illinois Department of Employment Security website asks applicants if they are U.S. citizens and for the city of their birth, and Garcia usually checked the U.S. citizen box—even though she knew her clients were not. She also kept a list of U.S. cities near the Mexican border, handwritten and neatly organized, and selected from it when filling out a client’s application.

Garcia, who lived about an hour from Chicago in Round Lake Beach, also submitted unemployment claims with false Social Security numbers. When a confidential informant told her he was concerned because he bought his Social Security number “on the street,” Garcia and her employee reassured him that wouldn’t be a problem. Garcia told the informant she had clients who used false Social Security numbers for five or six years without problems, and that nine out of 10 applications were approved.

During the time Garcia operated her fraud scam, from about 2009 to 2012, she deposited about $37,000 in cash into accounts in her daughter’s name, listed her occupation on tax returns as “housewife” and didn’t report any income. When federal agents finally searched her home in May 2012, they found evidence she had submitted or prepared claims for at least 668 people.

“Defendant committed wholesale fraud against a state program designed to help some of the most vulnerable state residents get back on their feet after an unexpected job loss,” federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo, which called Gacia’s crime “fraud on almost an industrial scale” and said the scam took money from unemployed Illinois residents who submitted legitimate claims.

“Garcia defrauded taxpayers of millions of dollars by assisting hundreds of ineligible workers in their efforts to receive unemployment insurance benefits intended for Americans who were out of work,” James Vanderberg, special agent-in-charge of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General in Chicago, said in a press release. “The Office of Inspector General will continue to work with our law-enforcement partners to investigate those who attempt to fraudulently obtain money from Department of Labor Programs."...

Thankfully, liberals are tripling down on their retarded racism, so we will get two terms of President Trump. #MAGA

 

[JoeB131]

Simple enough solution to this.

Create a National ID Card system with biometric data on every citizen and resident alien.

But since you have people on the right who will think the government wants to plant microchips in their asses or something, that won't happen.

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

Simple enough solution to this.

Create a National ID Card system with biometric data on every citizen and resident alien.

But since you have people on the right who will think the government wants to plant microchips in their asses or something, that won't happen.

I support a national ID, so what's your point?

 

[anotherlife]

There is no real difference between national ID with biographic data, and implanting microchips into people. Both serve the purpose of monitoring and controlling all your moves. Also warned against in the Book of Revelations. This thread is a good example to show, how immigration is an excellent excuse to enslave citizens.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Simple enough solution to this.

Create a National ID Card system with biometric data on every citizen and resident alien.

But since you have people on the right who will think the government wants to plant microchips in their asses or something, that won't happen.

But of COURSE we can do no such thing, according to you and your buddies old people black people and Hispanic people can NOT get ID's, remember how you insist that is true for voting?

 

[JoeB131]

There is no real difference between national ID with biographic data, and implanting microchips into people. Both serve the purpose of monitoring and controlling all your moves. Also warned against in the Book of Revelations. This thread is a good example to show, how immigration is an excellent excuse to enslave citizens.

Okay, if you really think that a bunch of Bronze Age superstitions is a good guide in life, that's on you.

sorry, a National ID card would be a great benefit, as it would cut down on identity theft.

 

[JoeB131]

But of COURSE we can do no such thing, according to you and your buddies old people black people and Hispanic people can NOT get ID's, remember how you insist that is true for voting?

Well, yeah, if you charge them money for it and use it as an excuse to tax them.

So make the ID mandatory and free. Problem Solved.

 

[anotherlife]

There is no real difference between national ID with biographic data, and implanting microchips into people. Both serve the purpose of monitoring and controlling all your moves. Also warned against in the Book of Revelations. This thread is a good example to show, how immigration is an excellent excuse to enslave citizens.

Okay, if you really think that a bunch of Bronze Age superstitions is a good guide in life, that's on you.

sorry, a National ID card would be a great benefit, as it would cut down on identity theft.

I think people are people, in the bronze age the same as today. The solution against identity theft is not more control over you, but less control, such as shutting down national credit reporting. What kind of deal is it anyways, when your counter party knows everything about you before you even open your mouth, but you know nothing about them? Don't you think it is a little phony and tilted? With biometric ID cards, this will get even worse, totally out of control, and like in those Bronze Age predictions, all your survival assets will be pre conditioned by it.

 

[JoeB131]

I think people are people, in the bronze age the same as today.

No, you see, people in the bronze age thought God lived on a cloud and everything in science they didn't understand was God being angry with them. Their response was usually to stone some poor schlub to death for something that wasn't a big deal.

The solution against identity theft is not more control over you, but less control, such as shutting down national credit reporting. What kind of deal is it anyways, when your counter party knows everything about you before you even open your mouth, but you know nothing about them?

But that's not true, either. the "other party" is usually a big publicly traded corporation, and there are lots of resources you can access to research them and determine whether or not you want to do business with them or not.

What is national credit reporting? It's a view of your credit history. When people lend you money, do you pay it back in a timely manner? How much debt are you carrying, and will you be able to pay it off?

With biometric ID cards, this will get even worse, totally out of control, and like in those Bronze Age predictions, all your survival assets will be pre conditioned by it.

yeah, not really. The fact is, you really can't get through life without proper ID. All biometrics would do is make sure that no one can steal your ID without you knowing about it.

 

[anotherlife]

I think people are people, in the bronze age the same as today.

No, you see, people in the bronze age thought God lived on a cloud and everything in science they didn't understand was God being angry with them. Their response was usually to stone some poor schlub to death for something that wasn't a big deal.

The solution against identity theft is not more control over you, but less control, such as shutting down national credit reporting. What kind of deal is it anyways, when your counter party knows everything about you before you even open your mouth, but you know nothing about them?

But that's not true, either. the "other party" is usually a big publicly traded corporation, and there are lots of resources you can access to research them and determine whether or not you want to do business with them or not.

What is national credit reporting? It's a view of your credit history. When people lend you money, do you pay it back in a timely manner? How much debt are you carrying, and will you be able to pay it off?

With biometric ID cards, this will get even worse, totally out of control, and like in those Bronze Age predictions, all your survival assets will be pre conditioned by it.

yeah, not really. The fact is, you really can't get through life without proper ID. All biometrics would do is make sure that no one can steal your ID without you knowing about it.

I see no change, they still stone people for anything they don't like, only the stones are legalese and prison sentences.

You can't research the other party that you are expected to make a deal with. You can only research it for investment relations, if you are interested in investing in them. Nothing to do with a sell-buy supply-demand deal, which should be the one of your interest for your survival.

National credit reporting is not only a view of your credit history. It is also a data base that gives enough data for the one with the privilege of access, to not only time market bubbles, but also to control when exactly to burst them and start them, down to the last citizen. That way, a national credit reporting system determines the prices of everything, determines the value of all your assets, and determines the future of all your finances, without your permission, and with complete certainty.

It is true that everything has deteorated so bad, that an ID is needed for everything, some leftists want to even kill the idea of cash. But this leads to the fact that at your birth, some centralized totalitarian government will determine what and when you will achieve in your life, like a communist nirvana, and the only alternative for you will be starvation, as also described in the Book of Revelations.

 

[JoeB131]

National credit reporting is not only a view of your credit history. It is also a data base that gives enough data for the one with the privilege of access, to not only time market bubbles, but also to control when exactly to burst them and start them, down to the last citizen. That way, a national credit reporting system determines the prices of everything, determines the value of all your assets, and determines the future of all your finances, without your permission, and with complete certainty.

Does your doctor know you are off your medications?

 

[danielpalos]

Undocumented immigrants steal millions of dollars in unemployment benefits with help from a Chicago-area woman

Leticia Garcia set up her garage in a Chicago suburb to look like a bustling home office, outfitting it with computers, employees and posted business hours. But the grandmother was actually conducting a simple unemployment insurance scam, one that stole almost $7 million from the state of Illinois, attracted a federal investigation and on Monday earned Garcia a four-year prison sentence.

Garcia would pass out business cards at gas stations and on some days 10 to 15 people would walk into her office and hire her to file unemployment insurance claims for them, according to court papers filed by federal prosecutors. Many of her clients were Mexican-born immigrants without lawful immigration status or work permits, which made them ineligible for unemployment benefits.

The Illinois Department of Employment Security website asks applicants if they are U.S. citizens and for the city of their birth, and Garcia usually checked the U.S. citizen box—even though she knew her clients were not. She also kept a list of U.S. cities near the Mexican border, handwritten and neatly organized, and selected from it when filling out a client’s application.

Garcia, who lived about an hour from Chicago in Round Lake Beach, also submitted unemployment claims with false Social Security numbers. When a confidential informant told her he was concerned because he bought his Social Security number “on the street,” Garcia and her employee reassured him that wouldn’t be a problem. Garcia told the informant she had clients who used false Social Security numbers for five or six years without problems, and that nine out of 10 applications were approved.

During the time Garcia operated her fraud scam, from about 2009 to 2012, she deposited about $37,000 in cash into accounts in her daughter’s name, listed her occupation on tax returns as “housewife” and didn’t report any income. When federal agents finally searched her home in May 2012, they found evidence she had submitted or prepared claims for at least 668 people.

“Defendant committed wholesale fraud against a state program designed to help some of the most vulnerable state residents get back on their feet after an unexpected job loss,” federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo, which called Gacia’s crime “fraud on almost an industrial scale” and said the scam took money from unemployed Illinois residents who submitted legitimate claims.

“Garcia defrauded taxpayers of millions of dollars by assisting hundreds of ineligible workers in their efforts to receive unemployment insurance benefits intended for Americans who were out of work,” James Vanderberg, special agent-in-charge of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General in Chicago, said in a press release. “The Office of Inspector General will continue to work with our law-enforcement partners to investigate those who attempt to fraudulently obtain money from Department of Labor Programs."...

Thankfully, liberals are tripling down on their retarded racism, so we will get two terms of President Trump. #MAGA

We should be solving our illegal problem on a permanent basis via our Commerce Clause; there should be no illegals in the US.

 

[danielpalos]

Simple enough solution to this.

Create a National ID Card system with biometric data on every citizen and resident alien.

But since you have people on the right who will think the government wants to plant microchips in their asses or something, that won't happen.

Free ID to vote, right wingers!

 

[anotherlife]

National credit reporting is not only a view of your credit history. It is also a data base that gives enough data for the one with the privilege of access, to not only time market bubbles, but also to control when exactly to burst them and start them, down to the last citizen. That way, a national credit reporting system determines the prices of everything, determines the value of all your assets, and determines the future of all your finances, without your permission, and with complete certainty.

Does your doctor know you are off your medications?

Have you ever wondered why the 21st century market bubbles don't deflate like all bubbles in the past centuries? For example, compare the deflation of the subprime mortgage credit crunch with 1929, 1913, or even the 18th century South Sea Company bubble.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

But of COURSE we can do no such thing, according to you and your buddies old people black people and Hispanic people can NOT get ID's, remember how you insist that is true for voting?

Well, yeah, if you charge them money for it and use it as an excuse to tax them.

So make the ID mandatory and free. Problem Solved.

Well the all wise governemt made getting a SSN for new borns mandatory before first grade. Why not voters reg.?

 

[Dan Stubbs]

I think people are people, in the bronze age the same as today.

No, you see, people in the bronze age thought God lived on a cloud and everything in science they didn't understand was God being angry with them. Their response was usually to stone some poor schlub to death for something that wasn't a big deal.

The solution against identity theft is not more control over you, but less control, such as shutting down national credit reporting. What kind of deal is it anyways, when your counter party knows everything about you before you even open your mouth, but you know nothing about them?

But that's not true, either. the "other party" is usually a big publicly traded corporation, and there are lots of resources you can access to research them and determine whether or not you want to do business with them or not.

What is national credit reporting? It's a view of your credit history. When people lend you money, do you pay it back in a timely manner? How much debt are you carrying, and will you be able to pay it off?

With biometric ID cards, this will get even worse, totally out of control, and like in those Bronze Age predictions, all your survival assets will be pre conditioned by it.

yeah, not really. The fact is, you really can't get through life without proper ID. All biometrics would do is make sure that no one can steal your ID without you knowing about it.

I see no change, they still stone people for anything they don't like, only the stones are legalese and prison sentences.

You can't research the other party that you are expected to make a deal with. You can only research it for investment relations, if you are interested in investing in them. Nothing to do with a sell-buy supply-demand deal, which should be the one of your interest for your survival.

National credit reporting is not only a view of your credit history. It is also a data base that gives enough data for the one with the privilege of access, to not only time market bubbles, but also to control when exactly to burst them and start them, down to the last citizen. That way, a national credit reporting system determines the prices of everything, determines the value of all your assets, and determines the future of all your finances, without your permission, and with complete certainty.

It is true that everything has deteorated so bad, that an ID is needed for everything, some leftists want to even kill the idea of cash. But this leads to the fact that at your birth, some centralized totalitarian government will determine what and when you will achieve in your life, like a communist nirvana, and the only alternative for you will be starvation, as also described in the Book of Revelations.

George Soros has started the similar plan a few years back with the UN acting as the World IRS to collect taxes and do the payouts ....to other Nations to help equalize the world income.

 

[MaryL]

Can we still say "illegal immigrant"? Liberals were pushing to ban that phrase, because it was hurtful and pejorative. But they have since backed away from that. I have seen entire industries devastated by illegal aliens. Things like the box industry, or construction flipped on it's ear by illegal aliens, for starters, They now need to learn SPANISH as well as wear hard hats in those industries. It's disgusting how we genuflect to political correctness and liberal group think.

 

[anotherlife]

I think people are people, in the bronze age the same as today.

No, you see, people in the bronze age thought God lived on a cloud and everything in science they didn't understand was God being angry with them. Their response was usually to stone some poor schlub to death for something that wasn't a big deal.

The solution against identity theft is not more control over you, but less control, such as shutting down national credit reporting. What kind of deal is it anyways, when your counter party knows everything about you before you even open your mouth, but you know nothing about them?

But that's not true, either. the "other party" is usually a big publicly traded corporation, and there are lots of resources you can access to research them and determine whether or not you want to do business with them or not.

What is national credit reporting? It's a view of your credit history. When people lend you money, do you pay it back in a timely manner? How much debt are you carrying, and will you be able to pay it off?

With biometric ID cards, this will get even worse, totally out of control, and like in those Bronze Age predictions, all your survival assets will be pre conditioned by it.

yeah, not really. The fact is, you really can't get through life without proper ID. All biometrics would do is make sure that no one can steal your ID without you knowing about it.

I see no change, they still stone people for anything they don't like, only the stones are legalese and prison sentences.

You can't research the other party that you are expected to make a deal with. You can only research it for investment relations, if you are interested in investing in them. Nothing to do with a sell-buy supply-demand deal, which should be the one of your interest for your survival.

National credit reporting is not only a view of your credit history. It is also a data base that gives enough data for the one with the privilege of access, to not only time market bubbles, but also to control when exactly to burst them and start them, down to the last citizen. That way, a national credit reporting system determines the prices of everything, determines the value of all your assets, and determines the future of all your finances, without your permission, and with complete certainty.

It is true that everything has deteorated so bad, that an ID is needed for everything, some leftists want to even kill the idea of cash. But this leads to the fact that at your birth, some centralized totalitarian government will determine what and when you will achieve in your life, like a communist nirvana, and the only alternative for you will be starvation, as also described in the Book of Revelations.

George Soros has started the similar plan a few years back with the UN acting as the World IRS to collect taxes and do the payouts ....to other Nations to help equalize the world income.

Then George Soros also has contributed to the erasure of many groups of people. Like the soviets, same attitude, global equalization. Awful. So if the US wants to work for its own survival, then it has no place in Soros's book.

 

[anotherlife]

Can we still say "illegal immigrant"? Liberals were pushing to ban that phrase, because it was hurtful and pejorative. But they have since backed away from that. I have seen entire industries devastated by illegal aliens. Things like the box industry, or construction flipped on it's ear by illegal aliens, for starters, They now need to learn SPANISH as well as wear hard hats in those industries. It's disgusting how we genuflect to political correctness and liberal group think.

The republicans did the worst damage, when they washed away the difference between legal immigration and illegal immigration during the Bush years.

 

[gallantwarrior]

But of COURSE we can do no such thing, according to you and your buddies old people black people and Hispanic people can NOT get ID's, remember how you insist that is true for voting?

Well, yeah, if you charge them money for it and use it as an excuse to tax them.

So make the ID mandatory and free. Problem Solved.

Well the all wise governemt made getting a SSN for new borns mandatory before first grade. Why not voters reg.?

I'm not sure where you are, but all newborns are issued a SSN before they leave the hospital where they are born.