Stockton woman could face decades in prison over unemployment, identity-theft schemes

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Stockton Woman Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft, EDD Fraud Schemes

STOCKTON (CBS13) — A Stockton woman pleaded guilty this week to unemployment fraud and identity theft schemes, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.Between May and September in 2020, Hopelyn Rhiannon Ausk, 25, targeted California’s Employment Development Department’s unemployment program by using victims’ personal information to submit 20 fraudulent claims, 12 of which paid over $160,000 in debit cards that were mailed to her home, the DOJ s…