The Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., provides a five-year extension on the statute of limitations for criminally prosecuting those who committed ...

Legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Justice more time to track down and punish pandemic-era unemployment ...

Tran, 50, a Fitchburg Republican who served in the Legislature from 2017 to January 2021, proclaimed his innocence as he left ...

That’s because this March, the five-year statute of limitations on COVID-era fraud prosecution is set to expire. Criminals ...

Gross pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in September and was sentenced Thursday to one day of jail time, followed by three years of supervised release, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

Dean Tran of Fitchburg, was convicted in September on 20 counts of wire fraud and three counts of filing false tax returns.

Cedric Daniels and Allison Illahi pleaded guilty to defrauding the EDD of over $500k and possessing narcotics.

A federal judge sentenced a Greenwood, Indiana, man Wednesday to a lengthy prison term for what prosecutors described as a ...

A Sacramento woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to aggravated identity theft and mail fraud in connection with a scheme prosecutors say stole $2.6 million in COVID-era benefits from the state’s ...

Representative Chuck Edwards has reintroduced the Unemployment Integrity (UI) Act to enforce stricter unemployment benefit ...