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Last month I wrote about a rapper calling himself Nuke Bizzle who was arrested after posting a music video on YouTube in which he bragged about defrauding California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) of more than a million dollars. It turns out Bizzle was just the tip of the iceberg.
Tuesday a group of District Attorneys in California announced what they called “the most significant fraud on taxpayer funds in California history.” Thousands of California inmates applied for and received unemployment benefits in the form of pre-paid EDD cards. More than 100 of the beneficiaries of this fraud are currently on death row: