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Created: May 07, 2021 03:58 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — An audit of the New York Department of Labor is underway in an attempt to uncover how hard the state's unemployment system has been hit by fraudsters, the Office of State Comptroller confirmed Friday.
This follows a months-long News10NBC Investigation by Investigative Reporter Jennifer Lewke. She's been trying to get a figure of how many millions or billions of dollars have been given to scammers from the Department of Labor for months.
Lewke asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo for it directly last week and he couldn't or wouldn't say, but now, the DOL will have to open the books to the State Comptroller.