California edd8/5/2023 ![]() ALL OF THOSE APPLICATIONS WERE USING OTHER PEOPLE'S NAMES, LIKELY VICTIMS OF IDENTITY THT.EF CALIFORNIA PAID OUT THE MOS MOY,NE $1.2 MILLION. INVESTIGATORS ALSO FOUND75 1 PREPAID DETBI CARDS FROM OTHER STATES. A FEDERAL COMPLAINT OBTAINED BY KCRA-3 INVESTIGATES SAYS MORE THAN 200 INDIVIDUAL UNEMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS WERE FILED WITH EDD FROM ONE ADDRESS IN HYATTSVIE,LL MARYLAND BETWEEN MARCHND OCTOBER OF 20.02 EDD APPROVED NINETY-SEVEN OF THOSE APPLICATIONS ALMOST HALF. THREE PELEOP ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS IN FRAUDULENT CLAIMS POSSIBLY MORE. BRIAN, CALIFORNIA WASN'T THE ONLY STATE PROSECUTORS SAY THIS GROUP TARGEDET BRIAN: EDIE, GULSTAN, FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS BROKE UP AN UNEMPLOYMENT FRAUD RING THAT TARGETED CALIFORNIA'S EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AMONG OTHER STATES. GULSTAN: KCRA-3 INVESTATIGES BRIAN HEAP JOINS US LIVE FROM THE NEWSROOM. EDIE: MORE THAN 1 MILLION DOLLARS OF MONEY SLATED TO HELP UNEMPLOYED CALIFORNIANS, WAS NTSE TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN MARYLAND. TERRAIN FOR THE BECKWOURTH COMPLEX MAKGIN IT DIFFICULT. Let you know just I mean, how many people are looking for vulnerabilities anywhere they can find. And even when you think that people all the way on the other side of the country in Maryland are able to successfully get unemployment benefits in California. So the investigators say that when Bank of America and et de began using stronger fraud protection software in september of last year, that's when the number of fraudulent claims paid out began to reduce significantly but still an awful lot of money and amazing Galston. All three of these people now facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. So the amount of fraud that was paid out could actually be much higher. And many of those states don't use Bank of America. And court records show the Maryland ring alone filed fraudulent applications in Arizona California Maryland, north Carolina hawaii, Louisiana, massachusetts, Mississippi texas Washington and west Virginia. M's using debit cards that had other people's names on them. A Bank of America's security cameras also showed the three people taking out cash withdrawals at A. Investigators also found fraud in another Maryland apartment where the ring continued to file bogus claims across the country. All of those applications were using other people's names who were likely the victims of identity theft California paid out most the most money. ![]() So almost half of them investigators also found 175 prepaid debit cards from other states. From one address in Hyattsville Maryland. Three investigates shows that more than 200 individual unemployment applications were filed with E. ![]() They say for more than a million dollars in fraudulent claims and possibly more. Gideon Gholston federal investigators broke up an unemployment fraud ring that targeted California's employment development department. Not the only state prosecutors say that this group targeted not by a long shot. Three investigator brian he joins us now live from the newsroom brian California. Than a million dollars of money slated to help unemployed Californians was actually sent to a group of criminals in Maryland in Kayseri.
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