A Stevenson, Alabama, woman was sentenced Wednesday to 14 months of criminal sentencing after being convicted of mail fraud involving a scheme to defraud COVID-19 unemployment systems in the states.
Randa Allison, 29, appeared before Judge Curtis L. Collier.
After his incarceration, he will be on supervised release for five years. In addition, it ordered the payment of $120,025 in reimbursement to the Pennsylvania and Alabama Departments of Labor, and the forfeiture of $100,225 from the United States in a financial judgment.
Ms. Allison pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud.
According to court documents, from June 2020 to June 2021, Ms. Allison conspired with others to devise a scheme in which she defrauded the U. S. government. The U. S. Department of Health and the governments of Tennessee, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and California have been sent to the U. S. Department of Health and the U. S. Department of Health and the U. S. Department of Health and the U. S. Department of Health and the governments of Tennessee, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and California to offload cash from. support schemes in the form of unemployment insurance funded through the U. S. government.
Specifically, Ms. Allison acquired private data from others and used it to fraudulently make large online applications for cash earmarked across states to provide unemployment insurance assistance to those affected by the national pandemic. He falsely claimed in the programs that Americans whose data was not public about the programs worked in those states. The states would then send debit cards to addresses in the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Ms. Allison would get a percentage of the payment for the fraudulent claim.
The defendant is personally guilty of fraudulently distributing more than $120,000 in unemployment insurance funds, he said.
The scheme itself is the fraudulent distribution of more than $550,000 in unemployment insurance funds.
“As if the pandemic were not traumatic enough for our communities, fraudsters like the defendant have ruthlessly taken advantage of the crisis to secure a monetary windfall,” said U. S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton, III.
“We will continue to work with our partners at every level of law enforcement to pursue and prosecute criminals who used the crisis for fraudulent personal gain.”
“Randa Faye Allison and her co-conspirators filed fraudulent unemployment insurance claims with multiple state paint agencies, enriching themselves by defrauding a program intended to help U. S. personnel suffering from an unprecedented global pandemic,” said Mathew Broadhurst, special agent in charge of the Southeast region. U. S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General. “We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to protect the integrity of the unemployment insurance formula from those who exploit those benefit programs. “»
“The FBI takes very seriously its duty to investigate and prosecute those who commit fraud for non-public benefits. Together with our law enforcement partners at the federal, state, and local levels, we will continue to aggressively investigate those who have covered their wallets with cash intended for businesses and staff suffering as a result of the COVID pandemic,” said Special Agent in Charge Joseph E. Carrico, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Assistant U. S. Attorney Steven Neff represents the United States. The investigation was conducted through the Bureau of Labor Breakdown Inspector General and the FBI as a component of the Smoky Mountain Financial Crimes Task Force.
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