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U.S. Department of Labor OIG, Undocumented Individual Sentenced for Filing Fraudulent Claims in Unemployment Insurance Benefits (USAO D-NV 02/04/2022) (2022-02-04)

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A press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada, dated February 4, 2022, announcing that Alan Ray (33) was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution. The release states that Ray pleaded guilty in October 2021 to one count of conspiracy to possess counterfeit and unauthorized access devices. According to court documents and admissions as described, from March 2020 to late October 2020 Ray conspired with others to submit fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, the California Employment Development Department and other state workforce agencies, using over 100 victims' identities. More than $934,129 in benefits was approved and at least $698,655 was withdrawn.

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“U.S. Department of Labor OIG, Undocumented Individual Sentenced for Filing Fraudulent Claims in Unemployment Insurance Benefits (USAO D-NV 02/04/2022) (2022-02-04).” Original at www.oig.dol.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/u-s-department-of-labor-oig-undocumented-individual-sentenced-for-fili-9612bdac65/, SHA-256 064d503f3112f5b7a18d76bef6e43178865e9b18fdcb09ac99352f8f159f2fb8.

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                                      Department of Justice

                                        U.S. Attorney’s Office

                                          District of Nevada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                  Friday, February 4, 2022



 Undocumented Individual Sentenced for Filing Fraudulent
      Claims in Unemployment Insurance Benefits
LAS VEGAS – An undocumented individual was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for his
role in a conspiracy to use over 100 victims’ identities (without their consent) to unlawfully submit
fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits claims, totaling at least $934,129.

Alan Ray (33) pleaded guilty in October 2021 to one count of conspiracy to possess counterfeit and
unauthorized access devices. In addition to imprisonment, U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan
sentenced Ray to three years of supervised release and ordered Ray to pay restitution.

According to court documents and admissions made in court, from March 2020 to late October
2020, Ray conspired with others to submit fraudulent unemployment insurance claims with the
Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, California Employment
Development Department, and other state workforce agencies. As part of the fraudulent scheme, Ray
had the state workforce agencies mail debit cards — not in his name — containing unemployment
benefits to addresses he had access to. In total, more than $934,129 in unemployment benefits was
approved by the state workforce agencies, and at least $698,655 was withdrawn by Ray and his co-
conspirators. The fraud was discovered when Ray attempted to ship fraudulently-obtained debit
cards from Las Vegas to his residence in Houston, Texas.

Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron
C. Rouse for the FBI made the announcement.

This case was investigated by the FBI with assistance from the U.S. Department of Labor Office of
Inspector General (DOL-OIG), Los Angeles Region. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Fang prosecuted the
case.

On May 17, 2021, the Attorney General established the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force to
marshal the resources of the Department of Justice in partnership with agencies across government
to enhance efforts to combat and prevent pandemic-related fraud. The Task Force bolsters efforts to
investigate and prosecute the most culpable domestic and international criminal actors and assists
agencies tasked with administering relief programs to prevent fraud by, among other methods,
augmenting and incorporating existing coordination mechanisms, identifying resources and
techniques to uncover fraudulent actors and their schemes, and sharing and harnessing information
and insights gained from prior enforcement efforts. For more information on the Department’s
response to the pandemic, please visit https://www.justice.gov/coronavirus.

Anyone with information about allegations of attempted fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by
calling the Department of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) Hotline at 866-720-
5721 or via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at: https://www.justice.gov/disaster-fraud/ncdf-
disaster-complaint-form.
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