California sent about $400 million in fraudulent unemployment benefit payments to state prisoners, a state official said Tuesday, nearly triple the amount disclosed last week and a number that could grow as a criminal investigation continues.
Nine county district attorneys and a federal prosecutor are investigating unemployment fraud involving payments from the California Employment Development Department, which was under intense pressure to quickly process millions of claims as the economic impact from the coronavirus intensified last spring.
Criminals took advantage by submitting numerous fraudulent claims, many of which were approved by the state. Prosecutors discovered the fraud included inmates working with people outside the prisons and last week estimated $140 million was paid to about 20,000 prisoners between March and August.
But Crystal Page, spokeswoman for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency that oversees the unemployment office, said a review of records now pegs the figure at about $400 million.
400 million dollars theft from “We, the people”.
Anyone going to prison (other than all the black people already there??)?
Right.
PUBLIC employees could set off a nuclear weapon and keep their jobs.
ANOTHER scam on taxpayers..
Keep cheering, you total idiot buffoons.
And a lot of that money was funneled to out of state Republican Super PACS. This should be thoroughly investigated. Where is Wild Bill Barr and the FBI? Have they been thrown off the trail by all the evidence less claims made by Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Lin Wood?
California isn’t the problem. California politics are.
Having your tax dollars fund the industrial prison complex is the ultimate form of socialism. Do conservatives care? No, because it ensures slave labor can continue.
Make the state Pay it Back + interest & prosecute the Guilty !!!
The Guilty prisoners need to get LIFE with No Parole for doing it !!!!
Prisoners voted for Biden too > ILLEGAL !!!
Prisoners Laughing & Celebrating !!! What a country for them !!!