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The brazen fraud
Orange County prosecutors say Nguyen Social Services was charging up to $700 a pop to file false unemployment claims for people who did not qualify to receive Covid-19 relief money.
*** Read the whole article! How billions in pandemic aid was swindled by con artists and crime syndicates
Date: 2/19/2021 2:09:18 PM ( 58 d ) ... viewed 106 times
Feb. 13, 2021, 6:00 AM EST / Updated Feb. 13, 2021, 2:16 PM EST
By Kit Ramgopal, Andrew Blankstein and Tom Winter
When investigators raided a strip mall store in Garden Grove, California, in December, they found a line of customers snaking around the parking lot and huge stacks of cash inside the store.
Orange County prosecutors say Nguyen Social Services was charging up to $700 a pop to file false unemployment claims for people who did not qualify to receive Covid-19 relief money.
The brazen fraud was part of an overall scheme that cost taxpayers an estimated $11 million, prosecutors say.
“This isn’t just an Orange County problem. It isn’t just a California problem,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “This is a breakdown of catastrophic proportions that has failed the American taxpayer.”
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