have carried out what prosecutors described Tuesday as possibly the largest fraud scheme in California history., could total as much as $1 billion, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.Between March and August, Schubert said, inmates housed in every California prison and in jails across the state filed 35,000 claims totaling $140 million in benefits.
Sometimes those benefits were paid directly to inmates inside the facilities, she said. In other cases, the money was sent to relatives and friends outside the prisons and jails. In Kern County, district attorney Cynthia Zimmer said investigators were alerted to the scheme in September after the arrival of numerous money orders destined for inmates.
Sometimes the benefits included fake Social Security numbers and names like John Doe, John Adams or, in one case, “poopy britches,” Schubert said.In other cases, claims were made with real names. Among them were 133 of the state’s 700 death row inmates, including convicted criminals like Cary Stayner, who murdered four people near Yosemite National Park in 1999; Susan Eubanks, who murdered her four sons in 1996; and Peterson, who killed his wife and unborn son in 2002.
This is amazing to me. I survived an IRS audit which required me to file a bankruptcy and almost lost my home. 8 years later, the state of CA issued me a bill but added a ton of interest and penalties. I offered to pay the original amount which they refused insisting on inflated.
Lol
And just how much went to 'POOPY PANTS', Newsome!!!!?
There went all that Covid relief money!! But Californians better get off the streets!!
Under trumppppppppp
what else do they have to do?
So this could happen, but there is no possible way there is any election fraud? 😂😂😂
Way to go, California. Just when I thought you couldn’t suck more.
This is ridiculous, CA!
Second biggest fraud after C19.
Wow!
And whose watching the hen house? No one apparently
If you’re looking to commit fraud you’ll find no better mark than the State of California! They make poorer decisions with State funds than a 5 year old in front of the Pokémon isle with a $20!
I am sure Trump is laughing and thinking his next big deal.
The Democrats want no police and no Jails
Find every last penny!
They gonna give a man on death row a 5 year sentence for fraud?
How Terrible!!!!
Prisoners should not even be allowed to have access to the internet.
This reads like something from TheOnion
I love how they make it sound like some clever scam when it was really just the lax oversight in California's state government that will send a check to anyone who fills out a card. It's their fault more than the inmates for not anticipating this would happen.
What else would you expect from liberal California? Incompetence is their motto.
FFS couldnt you have waited until The Undoing was over!
Damn, they should be locked up for this.
Wear a mask people!
I guess it is true Trump twits would really declare him in innocent even if he shot someone on 5th ave in broad daylight on live camera shot
Of course Democrat states preach defund the police let criminal apply for unemployment because Peter pan got it, all democratic cities I bet
Oh good lord the first comment blamea Trump for this. Everyone is obsessed with him.
This just shows how stupid the government of California is. These government idiots don’t even know who is incarcerated? How hard is it to verify that? Isn’t there a database somewhere with the inmates names. Glad I don’t live in that idiotic state.
Yep but if you try to treat them like the criminals they are, the scumbags at the ACLU will waste my tax dollars by suing the system so they insure that the inmates have more rights than the victims.
Thanks, de
Who the freak handles the damn money. A kindergartner!
Another Trump LLC project
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Lol
Donald Trump has taught these inmates well with his example. I’m sure Trump is very proud of his students. Good job Trump, Barr, Pompeo, McConnell. You can all share in the credit. Make criminals great!
Insane
Lmfao the whole USA is a joke 😂 just give it back to the natives
The US governmental system is generally designed to fail to allow the excuse of 'we need blatant, unrestricted capitalism' to continue fucking everyday Americans with zero quality of life
Because CA s one of 15 states that don't cross check names/SSNs with state inmate databases
Another reason the federal government ought to give states more money to connect their many different gov databases. Also: “poopy britches' lololol
What makes you think this was only happening in jails...🤔 And only in california...
Nice job, CA
Law and order UNDR realDonaldTrump ‘s watch!!
And Nancy Pelosi wants to bail out these extraordinarily rich states with her Covid legislation The US is blessed to have senatorial leadership that rejects these boondoggles
Their mail is censored. Their phone calls are monitored. How the duck can they arrange this?
We’ve been told by the media that widespread fraud is impossible.
Hilarious that the jail staff didn’t notice an uptick in inmate cash being spent . Watch how many guards end up getting charged .
Does the Church of Scientology not qualify as a fraud scheme?
Well, they can take it back. Sure didn't stop the govt from taking my dad SS for December, when he died toward the end of the month.
These pendejos get too much in jail! To me there shouldn’t be tv computers phone time even church. They in jail for being pieces of shit to society so leave them in cages all day even to eat! Tf they get better treatment than old people in homes! ✊🏾
🤣🤣🤣thats what the people get
They finally arrested Tom Cruise.
Gang leaders making them apply probably. Authorities:
That’s how stupid the government is in California
PRESIDENT TRUMP PARDON ALL THE CRIMINALS IN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON... LET THEM WALLOW IN CRIME WITH NO POLICE AND NO DAMN SUPPORT FROM GOV
1. Inmates are employed in prison jobs. 2. Many were not allowed to do their assignments because of the covid lockdown. 3. Benefits are approved. 4.The prison system benefits from all the money the inmates receive via canteen and packages, etc purchased from prison-owned vendors.
IDK, uber is still in business so this can't be the biggest in california history
Guardian_Elite
Dipchits and Douchebaggatry
ScottPeterson DEATH PENALTY!!!!!!!!!
How TF are random unemployed people LET ALONE INMATES able to file for EDD benefits wherein an ACTUAL EMPLOYER verifies a layoff to generate benefits? FFS.
Another GavinNewsom victory
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'quite frankly the inmates are mocking us' You thunk?
The state is incompetent
Related to Jordan Peterson?
Disgraceful! However, with technology now a days how can the government not have the proper software to identify these people?
But in Colorado they would get the vaccine first. 🤦♂️
jonah_jill More likely, someone far more tech savvy and financially minded acquired their personal info and did this. These guys aren’t this smart.
California. Getting the government they voted for.
I just assumed California supports handing taxpayer money directly to felons
Better 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. 🙄
And I worked in KY and could not get unemployment or even find out why I couldn’t get it! Went online, emailed, called, sent a letter. No response ! How did prisoners do it?NacksonLynn
California deserves it. How funny.
I'm not even mad that the death row inmates did it. Honestly, what did they have to lose?
Refund police though 😂
🤡🤣😂
Incredible! CA lawmakers need to close this gap in linking records & recover money from relatives or whomever got it.
MistresofCitrus What are they going to do? Kill them?
Omg.
Where is Bill Barr?
But millions of liberals think Biden, Newsom, Feinstein, Waters and Pelosi can manage the country.
yet I, a single father, filed eleven weeks straight and received nothing. Not one fucking penny
And people don’t think there was election fraud 🤣🤣🤣🤣😒
Well, our potus knew the EDD offices voiced their out-of-date electronic system could not handle the extremely high volume of claims filed this past year, like everything else that affects the people of America he ignored them, scandalous
This plain foolishness....🤡🤡🤡
California
This is an indictment of California, not its criminals who behaved appropriately criminal.
You’re in prison damnit. No phones, no contact and this shit stops. You lost your rights when you violated others. What’s so hard about that?
That's the problem with prison. It's usually full of criminals.
Am I the only one who finds this absolutely hilarious
Time for realdonaldtrump to pardon him
Keeps 'em from dating each other.
I see they finally arrested Tom Cruise.
Send them to prison! What?
They voted?
So they scammed the IRS in jail...now who are we blaming...ok IRS....TF
California 😳
So... any person processing these claims did not know or check, where these individuals where housed? And thr true victims will suffer because of this.
Lol...they have nothing else to do in prison
Check their robinhood accounts lol
They do it in every state
Wtf 🤦🏻♀️ 'John Doe' and 'poopy britches' didn't raise any flags 🙄🤨 The dumbasses who approved the shit needs investigating ...
PERSONALITIES THATS IT
Is it fraud if a 5th grader can do it
This is pretty funny, actually.
and yet unsolicited vote by mail is so secure
Fraud? They applied for it. The fraud here is the idea that we can put the government in charge of anything.
Other than Democrat vote rigging of course
What they going to do send them to jail
The commissaries in CA jails was running out of Ramen!
California, quit embarrassing the nation. Pathetic.
It was probably tRumps idea 💡 😅😂🤣
These people need to be put in jail!
Trump’s legacy...
WHY THE COURT SYSTEM GIVES TO HIM A SECOND CHANCE I HAVE NO IDEA NOW EVERYONE PAYS FOR IT AND HE LAUGHS ABOUT IT.
😂😂😂😂
California is a fucking joke!
Well now!!!! And to think their are so people who think Scott still didn't kill his wife? Hey dumbasses,do you still feel that way now?
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This kind of shit only happens under Democrats rule.
Wait, you send an application for relief, it gets screened, and then money is sent. The screening failed and that makes it fraud?
This is going to be interesting.
They should all get time added to their sentences., and of course get that money back.
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call the FBICBS , the Police is Fraud
Another take: Incompetent California officials in charge of COVID unemployment benefits get scammed by death row inmates.
Scott Peterson bitch ass
FrasierSein Hustling. It's not like they have anything to lose.
Unacceptable! They get 10 more years for this and who ever allowed this loses their jobs.
No wonder people believe wide spread fraud is possible. Americas checks and balances process sucks.
Sounds like Cali has a accounting problem?
ya gotta love those dems ya keep voting in,,,,,,,,,GREAT JOB to the STUPID American voter.
That's honestly genius, how exploitable is the system that this can happen? I live in Denmark and one of my friends who went to school for a couple of years in America recieved one of your stimulus checks. He's not even American ffs.
It had to start somewhere. Maybe within EDD. Someone had to set it up. They need to find the inside people who started the fraud.
What is Peterson and the rest of them even doing alive? Execute them already!
🤦🏽♀️
Only in America 👎
it was the 'poopy britches' for me
It's amazing how much deception is in the current system we have. We need something great. God's kingdom is the answer we have all been searching for.
Then You should cover the election next!!
IF YOU KILL YA SHOULD BE KILLED...FULL STOP... WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR...USA
I like that it was money orders going to inmates, not the fact that a Mr. 'poopy britches' applied for unemployment lol
They’re not different from realDonaldTrump
Glad fraud doesn't exist in our elections according to the news media 🙄
Did they literally apply or was it a scene by others? That’s what wasn’t clear to me.
45 LOOKS NASTY & INFECTED with SUMTIN! Kamala Harris (& Biden) ...DO NOT move into that White House etc for at least 2 months ..after it has been DEEP-CLEANED/FUMIGATED..everything REPLACED. That place is INFECTED with Covid ..and whatever else! DO NOT get close to them!
Biden stole the election with many others! FRUAD!
I’m dying 🤣
LMAO. Not like the inmates didn’t give enough hints a fast one was being pulled very creative names used. Imagine not being able to xreference eligibility for funding with employment status. Basic xreferencing should be common place. So open to fraud-how many times they all voted
Well at least they got smarter since this isn't the only place they found ripping off the government. Take their access to computers away for life so they can't do it again!
Well they should be in ... uh ... never mind.
Glad fraud doesn't exist in our elections according to the news media 🙄
Not defending the criminals, but if the California govt is going to issue benefit checks made out to 'Poopy Britches' without raising an eyebrow & double checking, thats their own fault....🤷♀️
How is this even possible? I have almost never been able to get help from the government
Only in America 👎
Criminals gonna criminal.
Good to know that the requirement that a person look for work every two weeks and attest that they lost their job due to covid is being audited so we don't have fraudulent claims occurring...
Sounds like they should be in charge of USA economy
You have got to be kidding me? $1 Billion dollars was fraudulent from the pandemic unemployment benefits, by tens of thousands inmates & prisoners jail & prison facilities by inmates! Here we have millions of peoples who put into that fund, from working hard, to get fuck by Nmate
You should see what they do in elections!
COUNT ALL LEGAL VOTES!!! 🇺🇸
he have carried out what prosecutors describe as possibly the largest fraud scheme in US history.
Gavin Newsom means he is going after Julian Assange!
Is anyone surprised?
The police are a useful place for ex military as the powers that were raped the Earth needed to placate them somewhere. Cant rape every nation and the Earth without boots on the ground. Now they need placating . A place . Purpose you brainwashed them to have staff sergent
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No kidding! Wow! Who would have ever thought crooks and murderers would ever commit fraud?!
Scott looks hot!!
They stole from EDD office in California.
Throw those fuckers in jail immediately!!
Fraud? In California Weird.
Mail in voting is safe and secure.
Coronavirus is a biological weapon used by Mongolia around the world! Coronavirus used by Mongolia in my home!
California. 🤗
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