KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that nine Kansas City metropolitan area residents have pleaded guilty to fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits while they were actually employed. Scott Wilson, 47, of Independence, Mo., and Lisa A. Myers, 42, of Blue Springs, Mo., pleaded guilty today Read More »
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that United States District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Yvette Compito, 44, of Santa Clarita, to four years and three months in prison and Karamoko Goodman, 37, of Lancaster, to four years in prison for conspiring to commit unemployment insurance fraud. According to court Read More »
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that TIMO JIMENEZ, 40, a citizen of Ecuador last residing on Fillmore Street in New Haven, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday, January 5, before Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to one count Read More »
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LASARO ALVAREZ-TAPIA, 24, last residing in Wallingford, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to approximately six months of imprisonment, time served, and three years of supervised release, for misusing a Social Security number Read More »
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO JAVIER NUNEZ-BANUELOS, also known as “Francisco J. Nunez” and “Chico,” 27, last residing in Wallingford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to approximately six months of imprisonment, time served, and one year of Read More »
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO JAVIER NUNEZ-BANUELOS, also known as “Francisco J. Nunez” and “Chico,” 27, last residing in Wallingford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to approximately six months of imprisonment, time served, and one year of Read More »
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today the indictment of an individual for identity theft and fraudulently obtaining unemployment compensation benefits from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mark E. Givens, age 45, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged in a 36-count indictment handed up by the Grand Jury sitting in Harrisburg Read More »
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller sentenced Rebecca Stoneking, 39, of Sacramento, to 21 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. According to court documents, between 2008 and 2010, Stoneking was Read More »
VICTORIA, Texas – Andrea Mims, 48, and Lea Ann Battles, 44, both of Cuero, Texas, have been sentenced to federal prison for defrauding the Unemployment Insurance Program, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. At the sentencing hearing this afternoon in Victoria before Senior United States District Judge John D. Rainey, Mims was sentenced to Read More »
United States Attorney Charles M. Oberly, III, announced that seven Delaware residents were indictedi by a Grand Jury yesterday, on charges that they each fraudulently obtained thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits from the Delaware Department of Labor. Altogether, the indictments allege that the defendants defrauded the Delaware Department of Labor out of more than $110,000 in both state and federally-funded benefits.
The defendants were charged with various counts of felony mail fraud and theft of government funds. In each case, restitution is mandatory and the felony mail fraud counts each carry possible prison sentences along with a fine. The seven defendants named in the indictments are:
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