From the Las Vegas Sun: A man charged with using undocumented immigrants to fraudulently obtain more than $4.4 million in unemployment benefits pleaded guilty Monday, Nevada’s U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden announced.
Francisco Garcia, 41, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, money laundering and false representation of a Social Security number, officials said.
Garcia must forfeit $4,401,548 in cash and five houses in Las Vegas, which were proceeds from the crimes, officials said.
According to the plea agreement, Garcia and three codefendants fraudulently submitted at least 591 unemployment claims to the state. As a result, the state paid unemployment insurance benefits, emergency unemployment compensation benefits, federal additional compensation benefits and state extended benefits, which exceeded $4.4 million, authorities said.
The defendants committed the fraud by recruiting people illegally in the United States to apply for unemployment benefits and obtained their personal identifying information and work history, officials said. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/oct/31/man-uses-immigrants-get-44-million-unemployment-be/
So, a man who uses illegal immigrants defrauded the state of $4.4 million. How did the illegals with forged documents get $4.4 million? Apparently, the State workers were not watching very closely and one wonders how much of this is going on? How many more illegals are getting unemployment compensation that they are not entitled to?
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