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Members of the Brooklyn-based "Woo gang" were arrested this week on charges of trying to steal $21 million in pandemic unemployment benefits -- and authorities used their own social media posts to nail them.
Members of the Brooklyn-based "Woo gang" were arrested this week on charges of trying to steal $21 million in pandemic unemployment benefits -- and authorities used their own social media posts to nail them.
As the coronavirus pandemic raged, Uncle Sam was doing more than putting money in unemployed Americans' pockets -- the federal government was also shipping tens of billions of dollars overseas to fraudsters working with the country's most prominent adversaries, such as China and Russia.
As the coronavirus pandemic raged, Uncle Sam was doing more than putting money in unemployed Americans' pockets -- the federal government was also shipping tens of billions of dollars overseas to fraudsters working with the country's most prominent adversaries, such as China and Russia.
It didn’t help the case of the rapper, whose real name is Fontrell Antonio Baines, that the names on the envelopes he flashed in the video were real victims of his identity theft, according to court documents. There’s also David Adler Staveley, one of the first people to be charged last year with pandemic fraud. After he was arrested and released on home detention, he faked a suicide, leaving his car near the ocean and a suicide note inside. He pleaded guilty last week to charges of conspiracy stemming from the loan scam and failure to appear, stemming from his fake suicide.