Indictment — No. 5:22-cr-00217 (Dkt. 1, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

A grand jury Indictment filed September 9, 2022 as Document 1 in United States v. Cynthia Ann Hernandez, aka "Cynthia Roberts," No. 5:22-cr-00217-MCS, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. It alleges that from June 2020 through at least August 2020 the defendant and co-schemers filed unemployment insurance applications with California's Employment Development Department in the names of persons incarcerated in California state prisons, claiming Pandemic Unemployment Assistance under the CARES Act, and had the debit cards mailed to the defendant's address. The indictment states the scheme caused at least approximately 29 fraudulent applications and losses of approximately $515,138. It charges mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341, access device fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(5) and aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1).

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