A California woman was charged with using the names of convicted killers to collect more than $145,000 in fraudulent unemployment benefits, prosecutors say.
, to collect more than $145,000 in fraudulent unemployment benefits — a small but headline-grabbing part of more than $20 billion stolen in similar scams during the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said Wednesday.including grand theft, forgery, identity theft and making false statements, the California attorney general’s office announced.An email seeking comment from her attorney, Ariana Alejandre, wasn’t immediately returned.
Peterson and Stayner were among numerous inmates who had claims filed in their names, prosecutors said in 2020. “Don’t let the infamous names distract you from who this crime really hurt — the most vulnerable in our society,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in announcing the charges. California has one of the nation’s largest public benefit systems. More than 20 million people filed more than 60 million claims for unemployment, disability insurance and paid family leave over the past decade.
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