3 Charged In Northern California Prison-Based EDD Fraud Scheme

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

FRESNO (CBS SF) — Two Northen California prison inmates and a Los Angeles woman have been charged with submitting $1.4 milllion in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to the California Employment Development Department (EDD).

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California Phillip Talbert announced in a press statement Tuesday that Daryol Richmond, 30; Telvin Breaux, 29; and Holly White, 30; were indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Richmond and Breaux are are inmates in two Kern County prisons; Richmond at the Kern Valley State Prison in Delano and Breaux at the California Correctional Institute in Tehachapi.

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