D.A. inspector listens to prisoner’s phone call, uncovers huge state unemployment scam
LAPPL News Watch
January 11, 2021
It was the first break in what turned out to be the biggest jailhouse scam in California history. It involved millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment payments to prisoners and their co-conspirators on the outside. And it happened quite by accident at the San Mateo County Jail.
“It was just before July 4. I was listening to a recording of a call made by prisoner I had been monitoring. About an hour into the call they started talking about this scam,” said Inspector Jordan Boyd, a nine-year veteran of the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
The prison schemes were
part of several fraud schemes that state officials estimate cost the
state $4 billion in unemployment benefit losses.
1 comment:
So, the recording system works. IF people actually listen to the recordings.
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