unemployment fraud

LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. — The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has arrested a woman accused of fraudulently filing for disaster unemployment assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials said that in …

MARYLAND — A Nigerian national, Temitope Bashua, 29, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for his role in a scam …

(WJAR) — Three Rhode Island residents are facing charges in separate cases for fraudulently obtaining tens of thousands of dollars in public assistance benefits. Rhode Island State Police brought the …

Thirteen Los Angeles County employees across seven departments have been charged with felony grand theft after allegedly stealing more than $437,000 in unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials announced …

Ricardo Santiago, a 59-year-old Hartford resident and the man at the center of a recent Amber Alert, is scheduled to be sentenced this week for a long-running fraud scheme in …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tabitha Leigh Markle, 53, of Sacramento, was sentenced Thursday to four years and two months in prison for orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that exploited the COVID-19 unemployment …

HAMLET, N.C. — A Hamlet woman, Tara Cordell, 37, has been arrested in connection with a $23,000 unemployment fraud scheme, Aberdeen Police announced. The investigation began on Sept. 20, 2024, …

CALIFORNIA – Former Amtrak service attendant Lizette Berrios Lathon, 48, of Moreno Valley, has been sentenced to 25 months in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme that defrauded nearly $1 …

NEW JERSEY – Morton Chirnomas, a 62-year-old attorney from Clifton, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining over $300,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. The sentencing …

Nigerian national Promise Okafor is serving a nine-year federal prison sentence in the United States for masterminding a multi-state unemployment benefits scam that netted over $2.7 million. He was arrested …