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

Brice, who started working for the EDD in 2010 ... “manipulate and file fraudulent unemployment claims” for co-conspirators — including people incarcerated in California — in exchange ...

Workers say California EDD failed to notify them that their eligibility was denied and threatened to seize assets if they didn’t repay benefits.

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 ...

The state’s embattled labor agency continues to make progress in chipping away at an avalanche of unemployment ... claims at the same address along with other key fraud indicators,” the EDD ...

A woman was sentenced in an unemployment fraud case in California, prosecutors said ... names and birth dates — to make unemployment insurance claims, according to prosecutors.

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 ...