Complaint — No. 2:20-mj-00189 (Dkt. 1, E.D. Cal.)

Summary

A sealed criminal complaint (AO 91) filed December 11, 2020 as Document 1 in United States v. Andrea M. Gervais, aka Andrea M. Dangerfield, Case No. 2:20-mj-0189 AC, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, charging mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341 from March 18, 2020 through October 15, 2020. It is signed by Special Agent John C. Collins of the Department of Labor Office of Inspector General before U.S. Magistrate Judge Allison Claire. The affidavit states that the investigation of Gervais, a former Employment Development Department employee, began after Bank of America found an unemployment claim in the name of a sitting United States Senator. It states that approximately 100 suspicious UI claims were filed with the home address, that EDD paid approximately $216,000 on about twelve of them, and that the intended loss is at least $2.1 million.

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