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LI Woman Avoids Prison After Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme With Inmate LI Woman Avoids Prison After Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme With Inmate
LI Woman Avoids Prison After Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme With Inmate A Long Island woman won’t serve any time behind bars after admitting that she fraudulently obtained thousands of dollars in unemployment insurance benefits by impersonating a prison inmate. Briana Garland, age 30, of Uniondale, was sentenced to two years of probation in federal court in Albany on Thursday, Feb. 2. It followed her guilty plea to a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Federal prosecutors said Garland submitted a false unemployment insurance claim to the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) in the name of Reginald Thornton, an inmate at Bare Hill prison in …

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