Pennsylvania officials charged nearly two dozen inmates and outside accomplices who allegedly conspired to obtain some $300,000 in fraudulent COVID-19 unemployment benefits.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro charged 20 inmates and accomplices across three state prisons. inmates in those prisons allegedly gathered personal information from other inmates and distributed them to people on the outside who applied for fraudulent relief funds in their names.
The arrests were linked to at least two existing rings of inmates who were charged in similar coronavirus-related fraud cases.