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American Military News by Ryan Morgan  November 25, 2020

In a Tuesday press conference, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said “tens of thousands of inmates” including death row inmates, scammed the state out of as much as $1 billion in pandemic-related unemployment benefits during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Those involved included local, state and federal inmates and included “every type of inmate that you could conceivably think of, murderers doing life or life without the possibility of parole, rapists serving hundreds of years of a sentence or perhaps life as well, child molesters, serial killers and other murderers sitting on California’s death row,” Schubert said. “Hundreds of millions of dollars, that may well amount to upwards of a billion dollars, having already been paid in their names.”

Schubert said the unemployment fraud could amount to the biggest case of fraud in California taxpayer history.

Schubert said that between just March and August, 35,000 unemployment claims were filed in the names of California state prison inmates and as of August, 20,000 of those claims had been paid, for a total of over $140 million.

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