Information — No. 2:20-cr-00587 (Dkt. 1, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

An Information filed November 20, 2020 as Document 1 in United States v. Bonifacio Jastilana Marinas, No. 2:20-cr-00587-FMO, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, charging mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341. It alleges that from April 2020 through at least August 2020 the defendant filed unemployment insurance applications with California's Employment Development Department stating that the named claimants were self-employed real estate agents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, triggering Pandemic Unemployment Assistance under the CARES Act. According to the Information, many named claimants resided in Saipan or the Philippines, and the debit cards were mailed to the defendant's home address. It states the scheme caused at least approximately 85 fraudulent applications and losses of at least approximately $516,244.

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