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Tag: $31 billion EDD fraud

California’s EDD Continues to Borrow Hundreds of Millions – about $13 million PER DAY – To Meet its Obligations

November 28, 2022   2:30 amNovember 27, 2022   4:24 pm
Though much of the Sacramento bureaucratic blob was exposed as the simultaneously incompetent and corrupt menace it is during the pandemic, one agency stood apart by proving itself the most inept and cruel organization in the capitol – the Employment...
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California’s EDD – Same As It Ever Was

September 26, 2022   6:56 amSeptember 27, 2022   2:17 pm
This article has been updated to explain a correction. “In response to pandemic problems, EDD unveils massive reform initiative.” A headline that anyone has seen?  Nope. A headline that should have been seen?  Yup. A headline Governor Newsom and the legislature...
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What the Recall Candidates are Saying About the State’s Most Dysfunctional Agency

August 2, 2021   5:05 pmAugust 2, 2021   4:19 pm
One of the hot button issues of the entire recall effort has been California’s Employment Development Department’s disastrous handling of the massive unemployment increase, a result of the pandemic and its concomitant state-ordered business lockdowns. The mishandling – which managed...
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Louisiana Officials Arrest 8 People Connected To Over $1 Million Defrauded from EDD

July 22, 2021   2:23 amJuly 21, 2021   6:59 pm
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) announced on Wednesday that 8 Louisianans have been arrested for defrauding the California Employment Development Department (EDD) out of $1 million last year. In total, the sweep covered...
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Former Chief Federal Prosecutor McGregor Scott Joins California Unemployment Fraud Investigation

July 20, 2021   5:46 pmJuly 22, 2021   8:00 am
Six months after the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency first announced that up to $31 billion had been stolen by unemployment fraudsters in 2020, state officials announced Tuesday  that a former federal prosecutor had been selected so serve as...
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