Re: Another COVID-relief unemployment fraud

On May 18, 2025 at 9:35:04 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

In the race to the bottom, BTR1701 keeps insisting his state is more
incompetent and corrupt than my state. Well, here's $10 million in
unemployment fraud committed by one woman (with others feeding her
information) over a period of 1 year and 8 months. She was released on a
$100,000 bond (is that just 10% down?) by a federal magistrate. I don't
see how that's enough to prevent her from fleeing with a false passport.
 
It sounds like she obtained a large number of SSNs and knew the name
match, then submitted false employment and payroll records. I don't have
enough details to know if these were false records of existing or
nonexistant businesses or if the others involved in the scheme were
owners of existing businesses. None of the false employees were part of
the scheme nor did they receive any proceeds. Of course this means a
great many people were totally fucked thanks to the identity fraud.
 
I'm sure BTR1701 will counter with a woman who committed $20 million in
fraud over a shorter period of time.

When your state reaches $30 billion in documented Wuhan Flu fraud, with
another suspected $10 billion in money that just 'disappeared' and is presumed
to have been pilfered, we'll talk. Until then, you Illinoisians are just
amateurs.