Jury Convicts Georgia Man of $16M COVID-19 Unemployment Fraud

By Scott McClallen 

 

A federal jury in Albany, Georgia, convicted a Georgia man today for his participation in a scheme to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor out of millions of dollars in benefits meant to assist unemployed individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Court documents and evidence say that Malcolm Jeffrey, 34, of Cordele, Georgia, and his co-conspirators, caused more than about 7,000 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to be filed with the GaDOL, resulting in more than $16 million in stolen benefits.

“The defendant and his co-conspirators orchestrated a scheme where they used stolen identities to submit fraudulent unemployment claims in order to steal millions of dollars of funds intended for the benefit of unemployed Americans,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Such schemes are all too common, but the Criminal Division is resolved to bring to justice fraudsters who seek to enrich themselves from the public fisc…

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