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Half of Oklahoma s unemployment claims possibly fraudulent, experts say Rebecca Pryor
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Criminals may have filed up to half of Oklahoman s unemployment claims over the past year, some experts say.
You may remember a few weeks ago, hundreds of out-of-work Oklahomans swarmed the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission s offices, claiming their way2go debit cards had been wrongfully flagged as fraudulent.
However, that s nothing compared to the thousands that were caught scamming the system, according to David McClellan, CEO and Founder of socialcatfish.com, a company studying the impacts and trends of unemployment scams. The amount of money that was lost through fraud and scams over the last 18 months is incredible, he said.
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An Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation biologist processes swabs from a sexual assault evidence kit at the OSBI Forensic Science Center in Edmond.
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Hundreds of rape kits await testing at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Forensic Science Center in Edmond.
Photo Courtesy of Brook Arbeitman / Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
As Oklahoma works to address the problem of thousands of old untested rape kits, new laws and a lack of manpower have created a backlog of newer untested kits for much of the state.
In the last two years the time it takes for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to process kits has increased from an average of 40 days to more than 300, said division director of criminalistics Andrea Fielding.
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