$4M in federal pandemic unemployment fraud, some in AZ, leads to conviction

$4M in federal pandemic unemployment fraud, some in AZ, leads to conviction

There was personal identification information stolen and hundreds of false unemployment claims made at different state agencies, including in Arizona.

$382 million in unemployment fraud uncovered by DOGE

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced last week that it discovered $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments that have been distributed since 2020, with the overwhelming majority of the unemployment fraud linked to the Democrat-controlled states of New York, California, and Massachusetts. In a Thursday post on X, formerly Twitter, DOGE tweeted, “California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most of these imprope…