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CT Man Uses Victims' IDs To Steal Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: Here's His Sentence CT Man Uses Victims' IDs To Steal Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: Here's His Sentence
CT Man Uses Victims' IDs To Steal Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: Here's His Sentence A 31-year-old Connecticut man will spend years in prison for using the identifying information of more than 40 victims to steal pandemic unemployment benefits, federal officials announced.  New Haven County resident Olajuwon Harrington of Waterbury, also known as “OJ Harrington,” was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday, Jan. 10 for stealing pandemic unemployment benefits, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut announced.  According to federal officials, Harrington used the identifying information of real victims without their knowledge t…

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COVID-19: Woman From Region Admits To Fraud Related To Pandemic COVID-19: Woman From Region Admits To Fraud Related To Pandemic
Covid-19: Woman From Region Admits To Fraud Related To Pandemic A Western Massachusetts woman admitted to a $1.2 million unemployment fraud scheme that she ran during the COVID-19 pandemic to illegally obtain unemployment benefits. Audri Ford-Victory, age 61, of Springfield, pleaded guilty in US District Court to one count of wire fraud in connection to her involvement in a scheme with a co-conspirator to profit from the pandemic. Prosecutors said that Ford-Victory and her co-conspirator submitted more than 100 fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims resulting in more than $1.2 million in payments. Approximately half of the PUA claims…

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by Zak Failla