A former state employee who filed more than $850,000 in fraudulent unemployment claims in exchange for bribes was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison.
Regina Brice, 43, of San Diego had been with the Employment Development Department since 2010. During the pandemic, her job as a worked as a program representative involved processing COVID-related unemployment claims.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Brice took bribes to help a number of people, including state prison inmates, file the false claims between July 2020 and May 2021. She also advised co-conspirators on how to withdraw the funds in a manner that avoided detection by fraud-check systems utilized by banks, prosecutors said.
Brice was sentenced Friday to a 66-month prison term following her plea to a mail fraud charge.
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