Criminal Complaint — U.S. v. Natalie Le Demola et al. (C.D. Cal.)

Summary

A criminal complaint, Case No. 2:22-mj-01656, against Natalie Le Demola, Carleisha Neosha Plummer and other defendants, filed April 27, 2022 as Document 1 in No. 2:22-cr-00205-JFW in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, charging wire fraud conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1349 from about June 2020 to April 2021. It rests on the affidavit of HSI Special Agent Alfredo Rossi, attested before Magistrate Judge Gail J. Standish. The affidavit alleges the defendants used stolen personal information, including from prison inmates, to file fraudulent pandemic unemployment insurance applications with the California Employment Development Department and withdrew benefits at ATMs. It describes a September 6, 2020 traffic stop that recovered EDD cards, cash and a ledger of 98 victim profiles, and states the scheme opened hundreds of fraudulent EDD accounts.

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