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01.29.2021 Two audits tell the tale: How California failed to detect unemployment fraud

Excerpted from CalMatters

By Emily Hoeven

01.28.2021 California failed to heed warnings of unemployment benefit fraud for months, state audit says

Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times

By Patrick McGreevy

01.27.2021 開假公司詐領失業金橙縣起訴10人含囚犯 (Orange County Files Charges Against Ten For Fradulently Claiming Unemployment Benefits)

Excerpted from the Chinese World Journal

1.26.2021 Commentary from Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris: With court appointments and GOP legislatures, Roe vs. Wade is under attack

Published in The Daily Pilot, January 26th, 2021

When I was born in 1975, Roe vs. Wade was already two years old. The “right to choose” to get an abortion is something I have known my entire life. To some extent, I — like many women of my generation — took this right for granted. It felt like part of the fabric of our lives. It felt like a fight that we had already won. It felt like we could move on to the next hill.

How wrong we were.

01.25.2021 Recuperan 300 mil dólares en efectivo, arrestos y cargos por fraudes al beneficio de desempleo en Orange ($300,000 recovered in cash, arrests and unemployment benefit fraud charges in Orange)

Excerpted from Univision.

01.25.2021 California paid out $11 billion in fake jobless claims last year, official says

Excerpted from ABC 7

By Eileen Frere

1.25.21 California Unemployment Scam Charges Revealed, Hearings Continue

Excerpted from Patch.

By Ashley Ludwig

LAGUNA BEACH, CA— Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris of Laguna Beach joins with Orange County prosecutors this week to detail multiple charges against defendants accused of ripping off the state's unemployment program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

District Attorney Todd Spitzer joins Norris, who will be leading hearings on the issue this week.

Three felons, including a convicted murderer, were charged one week ago in the scheme to obtain unemployment benefits during the pandemic illegally.