Posted on 02/06/2012 2:15:30 PM PST by posterchild
WASHINGTON (AP) About 90 District of Columbia workers have been suspended and may be fired after officials determined they received unemployment checks while holding city jobs.
The Washington Post reports Monday that another 60 former D.C. workers have cashed unemployment checks they were not entitled to.
Lisa Mallory is director of the city's Department of Employment Services. She says the city has paid about $800,000 in unemployment benefits to working city employees since 2009 (http://wapo.st/yEm9Iw ).
Mallory says some employees received as much as $20,000. Others received a few hundred dollars.
The fraud is not complicated. Mallory says people simply show they aren't receiving income even when they are.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Could get worse here.
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Illegal Manuel Mejia Ordonez ordered to repay $3M in Calif employment fraud
San Francisco Chronicle | June 26, 2010
FR Posted June 26, 2010 by artichokegrower
A former Marysville resident has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation.
US Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner said 31-year-old Manuel Mejia Ordonez was sentenced to eight years and one month in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and identity theft. (Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
QUESTION How does a citizen of Mexico make $3 million in unemployment claims? A. By establishing multiple identities. The fraudster, Manuel Mejia Ordonez, got eight years for conspiracy to commit mail fraud........and identity theft.
A common practice among "impoverished" illegals is to buy several forged identities for several thousand dollars each---- to vote and to ride the US gravy train under several names.
Jose Madrigal---the Washington state rapist---had some 30 identities.
Kinda takes Cloward-Piven to the next level, doesn’t it?
If this was only the worst that happened in D.C. today.....
The DC government has been a craphole for decades.
“May” be fired?
Yeah, sure.
Newsmax
Unemployment Tricks: Jobs Claim Made by ‘Shrinking’ Workforce
Monday, February 6, 2012 10:11 PM
By: Andrew Henry
Last week, the White House claimed that unemployment dropped for the fifth consecutive month to 8.3 percent the lowest it has been in nearly three years after adding 243,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But financial experts are saying the figures may have been manipulated and that the significant drop in employment was because of the fact that the federal agency charged with computing key economic data has significantly decreased the number of Americans in the workforce.
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