FILE - This May 11, 2018, file photo, from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, shows Scott Peterson. A California prosecutor says someone has filed an unemployment claim in the name of convicted murderer Peterson. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said it is one of at least 35,000 unemployment claims made on behalf of prison inmates between March and August 2020.
From March to August, more than 35,000 inmates were named in claims filed with the California Employment Development Department, with more than 20,000 being paid, according to Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. At least 158 claims were filed for 133 death-row inmates, resulting in more than $420,000 in benefits paid
Schubert confirmed there was a claim made in the name of Scott Peterson, but declined to provide further details. Schubert listed a number of inmates there who had claims filed in their names, including Stayner, convicted of killing four people in Yosemite National Park in 1999; Susan Eubanks, a San Diego woman convicted of shooting her four sons to death in 1997; Isauro Aguirre, who was sentenced to death for the 2013 murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez in Los Angeles; and Wesley Shermantine, part of the duo dubbed the “Speed Freak Killers” for their meth-induced killing rampage in the 1980s and ’90s.
Prosecutors blamed the Employment Development Department, which has been overwhelmed by more than 16.4 million benefit claims since the pandemic began in March, resulting in a backlog that at one time totaled more than 1.6 million people.But prosecutors said in its haste to approve benefits, the department did not check unemployment claims against a list of prisoners, as many other states do.
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JHVI1 While hardworking Americans have been pushed into poverty criminals like Scott Peterson have been getting unemployment checks from the state of California. The system is corrupt.
Meanwhile our neighbors to the north have been getting 2 grand a month for at least 7 months and we have been hit here in New York much worse. Our politician's are a fucking disaster! They don't give 2 shits about Americans.
Good reporting. Not as CORRUPT as we thought. Thank you for reporting REALNEWS AssociatedPress ap
Now we can stop incarcerating people for non violent crime. Since there are now MILLIONS of people that lied to get benefits in 2020. Maybe focus more on prevention and less on punishment. Obviously doesn’t work and costs taxpayers BILLIONS. Imagine throwing millions in jail. 🙄
This is what's wrong with this country
Unreal yet not surprised. CA, give us a refund, please! This is BS!
California are notorious for being a little on the dumb side just look how they vote.
Scum
Eww
I think it’s safe to say that those convicted of murder *and* decided to add massive fraud during a pandemic...should immediately report to the firing squad. They have no remorse for taking a life. You think a couple thousand dollars means much to them?
Competency level 1
Wonder who “poopy britches” voted for
Not surprised at all
realDonaldTrump
All of which im sure VOTED also for Bidden
KamalaHarris thoughts?
This is not a surprise. CA is a disgusting place
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Shameful for the ones who are administering this benefit for California. Resignations will be appropriate. Ultimately the Governor is responsible.
Hey AP, let's get to uncover he scene to bring covid into the US so biden had a chance to win. Can you actually do something worth while?
A stimulus check brought the rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used to Murder Black Lives Matter protesters! Trump and friends bailed him out of jail .
What about the money rich people got instead of small businesses? When is that money being returned?
That’s like 7k a person
Par for the course. I’ll bet they voted as well.
Why the hell is this basterd still not been executed. Didn't he get death penalty?
Let me guess a Democrat.
This is absolutely crazy and a waste of money and shows incompetence somewhere in distribution!! How did these people even get included? And deserving people are still without because of a glitch!! They have gotten no money and it is November!! Wonder how they fell hearing this!!
That’s because California is run by an idiot
I'm thinking someone got yhe names and social security numbers of the prisoners and filed on all of them to get massive amount of money. I could be wrong, but...
This fn figures! GavinNewsom! How does this happe!!! We are all suffering but for some reason these assholes are able to do this!? I can't feed my kids but prisoners are able to steal our $. So who pays for this? Not me! stoppayingtaxes this is horrible governing!
DavidOvalle305 What the hell.
Only in America!
Another feather in the cap of Gov. Navin Gruesome
So CA paid their slaves unemployment? Lol
Howwwwwwwwwwwww did that happen
Welcome to California !
And to think, California wants to run our healthcare.
Wow America is dumb
Thank you tRump
California, again, of course RecallNewsom
No doubt, this is just another one of the many “click bait” stories that was put together by the AP’s automated software/[NarrativeGenerator]. But who can guess anymore ?
They probably just identified as non-prisoners. Can't question it.
killer.
This is just one example of what Trump is talking about when he says 'No federal bailout for badly run Democrat states'
derekahunter California can’t help themselves. SMH
Sounds pretty liberal
In four years, President Trump The USA is the only nation with vaccines, he revived our economy, cut taxes, rolled back regulation, fought for free and fair trade, unleashed American energy, and created more than 7 MILLION good paying jobs! And today the Dow Jones hit 30,000
Nest egg.
If they would have executed him this would have never happened.
Thanks GavinNewsom
WTF
its as bad as voter fraud in PA, MI and WI
Nearly 18 years since Laci and Conner Peterson disappeared and were later found deceased. 😢
This happens everywhere every time the government sends out money. They know they are wasting billions and they don't care.
Idiots!
I read in local California news that some inmates were paid $20,000 a month. How is that possible? The max I recall is $450 a week and Fed Covid $600 a week. I bet there has to some internal EDD officials as well, only the investigators need to get to bottom of it.
What's worse - CA overpaying or FL not paying people who deserved to be paid.
And you want politicians to run our healthcare system? 😂
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Schemes travel fast in prisons ... wow , Scott Peterson still alive .. and ripping g off the State of CA. What a POS
😂😂😂 Stupid Libs 😂😂😂
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That’s California for you. They can’t get a damn thing right. High taxes homelessness people sleeping on the street doing drugs and we hear nothing from Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters about what they’ve done to that state. It was called the golden state now it’s the brown state.
How does Scott freaking Peterson get unemployment in prison, but when I've have to file for it they make me have my ex boss's 2nd cousin's goldfish vouch for my claim, and still only award me 6 weeks of benefits? Freaking California 🤦♀️
So disgusting people like Scott Peterson get financial benefits while the rest of us struggling Americans get nothing. 🤦♂️
CA shouldn't go out-of-state for murder-for-hire personnel; reduce budgetary concerns.. - California prosecutors have unearthed a scheme that resulted in the state approving more than $140 million in unemployment benefits for at least 20,000 prisoners
And I'm supposed to pay taxes and trust them with my money? Sorry, but no.
Jasus. 🤦♀️ Also, just seeing his face again made me nauseous.
And we’re supposed to believe our election was clean?
California, of course.
This may be true but at least we know with 100% certainty that nothing fraudulent went down in the election. Seems legit.
That's ok, NC inmates are getting stimulus checks even if they're never getting out.
“California leads the way.” Please. We have the worst leadership in the entire country. 🇺🇸
🙄 RecallNewsom
California, of course.
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WTF? How embarrassing for California. GetYourShitTogether
hell yea that rules
Well they are out of work
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dems always looking for potential votes
Isn't our government just great?
Good grief.
Get. It. Back. NOW
But government is gonna save us all! They know how to feed and provide for us in an emergency SO much better than we do. Smh *eyeroll*
For way less money, they could have hired people to make sure this stuff doesn't happen.
A scheme or an error?
Disgusting
Holy financial fuckup Batman!🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
Awful
Democrats
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