8 from Brooklyn charged with multimillion-dollar COVID relief fraud
Social media posts showed defendants fanning wads of ‘unemployment’ cash
From brooklyneagle.com
Eight Brooklyn residents, all in their late teens or early and mid-twenties, have been charged in connection with a scheme to obtain millions of dollars in unemployment insurance benefits funded, in whole or in part, by COVID-19 pandemic assistance programs, according to the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.