A former EDD employee, Andrea Gervais, is accused of filing 100 false Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims. Of those claims, 12 were processed for over $200,000 in unemployment benefits; if all 100 had been processed, she would have received around $2 million. Authorities were tipped off to the scam when $21,000 in PUA benefits were filed under Senator Dianne Feinstein’s name. Gervais was then caught on camera withdrawing cash from an ATM using at least seven PUA debit cards, including the one issued to Senator Feinstein. If convicted, Gervais faces 20 years in prison. (https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/12/18/fired-edd-employee-andrea-gervais-edd-fraud/)
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