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A 42-year-old man, Roosevelt Gulley III, faces four and a half years in prison and $575,000 in restitution after orchestrating a massive COVID-19 unemployment fraud scheme. Between July and September 2020, he stole personal data to file 79 fake claims with California’s EDD, falsely portraying victims as self-employed pandemic victims. He even tried to cash out benefit cards at ATMs, aiming for $1.5 million before getting caught. His guilty plea to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft underscores how crises create targets for exploitation—and how the system’s goodwill can be weaponized.

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