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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Another COVID-relief unemployment fraud
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 19:42:57 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>May 18, 2025 at 9:35:04 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>In the race to the bottom, BTR1701 keeps insisting his state is more
>>incompetent and corrupt than my state. Well, here's $10 million in
>>unemployment fraud committed by one woman (with others feeding her
>>information) over a period of 1 year and 8 months. She was released on a
>>$100,000 bond (is that just 10% down?) by a federal magistrate. I don't
>>see how that's enough to prevent her from fleeing with a false passport.

>>It sounds like she obtained a large number of SSNs and knew the name
>>match, then submitted false employment and payroll records. I don't have
>>enough details to know if these were false records of existing or
>>nonexistant businesses or if the others involved in the scheme were
>>owners of existing businesses. None of the false employees were part of
>>the scheme nor did they receive any proceeds. Of course this means a
>>great many people were totally fucked thanks to the identity fraud.

>>I'm sure BTR1701 will counter with a woman who committed $20 million in
>>fraud over a shorter period of time.

>When your state reaches $30 billion in documented Wuhan Flu fraud, with
>another suspected $10 billion in money that just 'disappeared' and is presumed
>to have been pilfered, we'll talk. Until then, you Illinoisians are just
>amateurs.

Ha ha, Am I right that there are fewer felonies to charge with the fraud
committed in part with a debit card than a check?