2 LAPD officers charged with COVID-19 unemployment insurance fraud

Two LAPD officers assigned to the agency's Newton Division were charged with unemployment insurance fraud ...

2 LAPD officers accused of COVID unemployment fraud

LAPD officers Peter Mastrocinque and Nicole Grant face insurance fraud charges for allegedly filing false unemployment claims ...
WDRB

How Kentucky’s unemployment system let pandemic overpayments slip through

Audits revealed major problems with Kentucky's unemployment system during COVID-19, and now thousands of people are being ...

CA recovered $6 billion in COVID-era fraud. It’s getting harder to recoup more

The amount of fraud has dropped sharply since the pandemic, but California still faced financial liabilities from the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. James Lankford Goes For Jugular Of $100,000,000,000 In Blue State Unemployment Fraud

Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford is introducing a bill Thursday aimed at eradicating fraud from unemployment programs, particularly in blue states.

Labor Department deploys ‘strike team’ to California over $21B unemployment debt, fraud concerns

The U.S. Labor Department deployed a specialized "strike team" to California over alleged unemployment fraud and $21 billion ...
Pew Research Center

Unemployment rose higher in three months of COVID-19 than it did in two years of the Great Recession

The COVID-19 outbreak and the economic downturn it engendered swelled the ranks of unemployed Americans by more than 14 million, from 6.2 million in February to 20.5 million in May 2020. As a result, ...
NBC Los Angeles

LAPD officers charged in COVID-era unemployment insurance fraud

Two Los Angeles Police Department officers suspected of committing unemployment insurance fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic ...