‘An Information Coverup’: New Study Says California’s EDD (Employment Development Department) Fraud Could Top $8B
(From CBS Los Angeles)
“I think this is rising to the level of not only a rat’s nest of incompetence, it is rising now to, essentially, an information coverup,” he said.
Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Newport Beach, said she was introducing a bill to have EDD crosscheck the names of inmates with those receiving benefits after a group of prosecutors found at least $400 million in fraudulent claims filed on behalf of people who were incarcerated.
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