Indictment — No. 2:20-cr-00522 (Dkt. 11, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

A grand jury Indictment filed October 27, 2020 as Document 11 in United States v. Fontrell Antonio Baines, No. 2:20-cr-00522-MWF, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. It alleges that the defendant and co-schemers filed unemployment insurance applications with California's Employment Development Department in other persons' names, listing the claimants as self-employed barbers to trigger Pandemic Unemployment Assistance under the CARES Act. The indictment states the scheme caused at least approximately 92 fraudulent applications, with attempted losses of approximately $1,256,108 and actual losses of at least approximately $704,760. It charges mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341, access device fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2), aggravated identity theft and interstate transportation of stolen property under 18 U.S.C. § 2314.

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