Prosecutors said the man and his accomplice netted about $1 million in funds intended for workers affected by the COVID-19 ...

A Citrus Heights man pleaded guilty to mail fraud and firearms charges for his role in a COVID-19 unemployment fraud scheme ...

They claimed more than $1.1 million in unemployment benefits for purported employees of the phony businesses, prosecutors ...

The DOJ said Oakland residents Kari Marie Russo and her co-defendant Steven Dunsmore submitted fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to California’s Employment Development Department with ...

DOGE claimed that the department found hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims. In one absurd ... of gross mismanagement of California’s unemployment system during ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in California dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs ...

Also sentenced was their brother, Laron Taylor, 38, of California City ... created and registered fake companies with EDD that had no real business or employees, and submitted fraudulent unemployment ...

"Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future! This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in," Elon Musk tweeted.

Tech billionaire, Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has announced that California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most improper unemployment claims in the United States ...

The fraudulent claims led to the California Employment Development Department (EDD) approving over 50 applications, resulting ...