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A five-person gang led by a California Highway Patrol dispatcher stole $3.3 million in Covid payments. One of the gang members was in prison for theft at the time of the crimes.
The fraudulent community was formed on the basis of one of the California families. Its leader was 44-year-old patrol dispatcher Janet Theus, who had access to the state's law enforcement systems. Thanks to this, she managed to steal the personal data of hundreds of residents of the region.
From April 2020 to July 2022, Theus and her accomplices filed about 300 fraudulent claims on behalf of other Americans for COVID-19 benefits, most of them involving minors and 17 cases involving prisoners. The husband of another member of the group, who was serving a prison sentence at the time, helped with them. He secretly collected the Social Security numbers and birth dates of his fellow sufferers.
The age of the members is noteworthy in the group's activities. That same friend, thermal power plant dispatcher Erica Robins, is now 57 years old, her husband Ronald Robins is 62, and the dispatcher's mother, who was involved in the scheme, is 78. She helped cash in the assistance provided.
Now the accomplices are on trial - some of them pleaded guilty, but others did not agree with the charges.
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The fraudulent community was formed on the basis of one of the California families. Its leader was 44-year-old patrol dispatcher Janet Theus, who had access to the state's law enforcement systems. Thanks to this, she managed to steal the personal data of hundreds of residents of the region.
From April 2020 to July 2022, Theus and her accomplices filed about 300 fraudulent claims on behalf of other Americans for COVID-19 benefits, most of them involving minors and 17 cases involving prisoners. The husband of another member of the group, who was serving a prison sentence at the time, helped with them. He secretly collected the Social Security numbers and birth dates of his fellow sufferers.
The age of the members is noteworthy in the group's activities. That same friend, thermal power plant dispatcher Erica Robins, is now 57 years old, her husband Ronald Robins is 62, and the dispatcher's mother, who was involved in the scheme, is 78. She helped cash in the assistance provided.
Now the accomplices are on trial - some of them pleaded guilty, but others did not agree with the charges.
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