Westwego Woman Sentenced For Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud

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A press release published 2025-11-21 by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announcing that Reha Janee Arvie, 35, of Westwego, Louisiana, was sentenced on November 19, 2025 by United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance to 52 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment, for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. According to the indictment as described in the release, beginning in or around July 2020 Arvie submitted approximately 100 fraudulent unemployment insurance applications to state offices, recruiting friends and family on Facebook and filing in states including Arizona, California and Texas. It states that she charged fees of $1,200.00 to $1,500.00 and obtained $267,612.00 from California's Employment Development Department.

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“Westwego Woman Sentenced For Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud.” Original at www.justice.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2025-11-21-westwego-woman-sentenced-for-conspiracy-to-commit-mail-frau-bd583ef98e/, SHA-256 08191cce2e0afab52281318d282bbe753f8bf7a0deded0e9294728252f99a30b.

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
–
Acting United States Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced today that on November 19, 2025
REHA JANEE ARVIE,
(
“ARVIE”
),
age 35, of Westwego, LA, was sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.
According to the indictment, beginning in or around July 2020,
ARVIE
defrauded, and attempted to defraud, various state offices of Unemployment Insurance (“UI”) through the submission of approximately 100 fraudulent UI applications.
ARVIE
recruited friends and family, via Facebook, to file these fraudulent UI applications. Additionally,
ARVIE
filed fraudulent UI applications for herself and others, in various states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah, Texas, and the territory of Guam.
ARVIE
charged those for whom she filed fraudulent UI claims fees, ranging from $1,200.00 to $1,500.00. For example,
ARVIE
obtained $267,612.00 in UI benefits from California’s Employment Development Department. Moreover, during the investigation,
ARVIE
lied to federal agents during an interview.
United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced Arvie to fifty-two (52) months imprisonment followed by three (3) years of supervised release and payment of a $100 mandatory special assessment fee.
On May 17, 2021, the Attorney General established the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force to marshal the resources of the Department of Justice in partnership with agencies across government to enhance efforts to combat and prevent pandemic-related fraud. The Task Force bolsters efforts to investigate and prosecute the most culpable domestic and international criminal actors and assists agencies tasked with administering relief programs to prevent fraud by, among other methods, augmenting and incorporating existing coordination mechanisms, identifying resources and techniques to uncover fraudulent actors and their schemes, and sharing and harnessing information and insights gained from prior enforcement efforts. For more information on the Department’s response to the pandemic, please visit
https://www.justice.gov/coronavirus
. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General, is an active member of the PRAC Fraud Task Force.
“The PRAC was established to promote transparency and facilitate coordinated oversight of the federal government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. The PRAC’s 20 member Inspectors General identify major risks that cross program and agency boundaries to detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the more than $5 trillion in COVID-19 spending, including spending via the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. This case was also supported by the PRAC’s Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence, which applies the latest advances in analytic and forensic technologies to help OIGs and law enforcement pursue data-driven pandemic relief fraud investigations.”
Anyone with information about allegations of attempted fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by calling the Department of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) Hotline at 866-720-5721 or via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at https://www.justice.gov/disaster-fraud/ncdf-disaster-complaint-form.
The United States Attorney’s Office would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General; the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General; the National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force; The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee; the United States Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General COVID Fraud Unit; and the California Employment Development Department with this matter. The prosecution of this case is being handled by Assistant United States Attorney Brian M. Klebba, Chief of the Financial Crimes Unit.
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