The Sacramento County District Attorney announced yesterday that millions od state unemployment dollars have been paid fraudulently to California prison inmates since the Covid-19 Virus pandemic arrived in California earlier this year. Attorney Anne Marie Schubert reported yesterday that the jail and prison inmates have filed and been paid millions of dollars and could go into the billions of dollars and could be the greatest fraud of taxpayer money in Californiaa s history. She said that since March, 35 thousand claims were filed in the name of inmates at state prisons worth over 140 million dollars. One inmate received 16 claims and was paid 49 thousand dollars. These claims were under several addressa s in California, other states, and even other countries. Some used their own names and others used false names. Claimants included death row, murderers, child molesters, and every kind of inmate in the prison system. One of several names appeared including wife and baby convicted killer Scott Peterson. So far District attorneys of Sacramento, El Dorado, Kern and San Mateo counties and the US Attorney of the Eastern District of California announce widespread unemployment fraud across California within county jails and prisons and this appears to be just the beginning. The questions that poses itself is where is the oversight on this department? Is there outside of prison help on this fraud, and are there any insiders involved? The Attorney General really has her job cut out for her.A California prosecutors Tuesday blasted the statea s Employment Development Department as a dysfunctional, often unresponsive, agency that was unable to help much whileA hundreds of millions of dollarsA in fraudulent unemployment claims were processed and padi.
The district attorneys described an agency where people who understood its system a such as prisoners and their allies a could easily file and receive jobless claims, while people out of work struggled to get their badly-needed unemployment money. DA Schubert said cooperation from the EDD has been slow and non-existent including requests to top EDD management with no response.