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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: