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CA Unemployment Agency Head Blames Trump Admin for Massive EDD Fraud and Failures

January 31, 2023   8:51 amJanuary 31, 2023   8:51 am
“Trump administration ‘neglected’ California’s efforts to combat unemployment fraud, EDD head says,” the Sacramento Bee reports Tuesday. “Nancy Farias swung back hard against allegations by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., that California has done a poor job fighting unemployment fraud,” the...
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EDD Director Rita Saenz Abruptly Resigns, Replaced by Deputy Director

January 29, 2022   2:13 amJanuary 30, 2022   3:27 pm
Employment Development Department (EDD) Director Rita Saenz abruptly announced her retirement in a staff email on Friday, with Governor Gavin Newsom to appoint EDD chief deputy director of external affairs Nancy Farias to the post early next year. Saenz had...
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Gov. Newsom Gets an Assist as CA Democrats Delay Hearing on $31 Billion in Unemployment Fraud

August 19, 2021   5:25 pm
Perhaps one of the most important hearings of the year to investigate California’s Employment Development Department fraud of $31 billion during the COVID pandemic, was postponed by California’s legislative Democrats. Democrats on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee already delayed the...
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What California Could Have Done with the $30 Billion Lost by the EDD

July 19, 2021   6:14 pmJuly 21, 2021   5:00 pm
It is, sadly, a fact of life that the public has become so inured to the vapor trail of zeroes involved in governmental financial mismanagement that sometimes those big numbers lose their meaning. Take, for example, the loss to fraud...
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California Borrowed $20.5 Billion From Feds For State Unemployment Payments

May 28, 2021   2:40 amMay 27, 2021   6:52 pm
Not many Californians know that California borrowed $20,501,188,129 billion from the federal government to pay unemployment claims. This loan will be repaid by the state and California employers. The California Legislative Analyst’s Office issued a report Wednesday about this loan...
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EDD Computers GO Down Again, Following Numerous Breakdowns and Fraud Claims

March 22, 2021   3:41 pmMarch 22, 2021   3:59 pm
Assemblyman Jim Patterson said Monday in a press conference his office was notified by EDD employee insiders that the EDD computer systems are currently down and have been for some time. Patterson said they have contacted the EDD for details...
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EDD Unemployment Fraud Leaving Californians Facing a Looming Tax Tsunami

February 2, 2021   6:41 pmMarch 22, 2021   3:14 pm
In November, California Globe reported that District Attorneys from across California joined together for a press briefing hosted by Sacramento County DA Anne Marie Schubert and El Dorado County DA Vern Pierson, to expose the massive unemployment benefits fraud in jails and prisons...
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