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Print A former employee who worked for California’s unemployment insurance program has been charged with conspiring with her prison inmate boyfriend to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic aid, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Nyika Gomez, 40, of San Diego was arrested at her home Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud and identity theft in San Diego federal court. The scam is among several that investigators have uncovered in recent months involving fraudulent COVID-19 unemployment payments to prison inmates, including notorious convicted murdere...

Updated on December 18, 2020 at 9:59 am NBC Universal, Inc. A porn actor and producer who worked for disgraced San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com pleaded guilty today to federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Ruben Andre Garcia, 31, was one of six people charged with filming pornographic scenes that prosecutors allege involved coercing and defrauding scores of young women over the course of several years. The website and its operators were also sued by 22 women who alleged they were told their videos would only be distributed to private customers, rather than proliferated online...

Ex-California contract worker charged in pandemic aid scam with inmate boyfriend Kristina Davis © (Courtesy of U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Inspector General) Suspect Nyika Gomez is captured on a surveillance camera withdrawing $1,000 from a debit card issued to a California prison inmate on July 23, according to a federal court complaint. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Inspector General) A former employee who worked for California’s unemployment insurance program has been charged with conspiring with her prison inmate boyfriend to steal h...

SAN DIEGO —  A former employee who worked for California’s unemployment insurance program has been charged with conspiring with her prison inmate boyfriend to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic aid, the U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday. Nyika Gomez, 40, of San Diego was arrested at her home Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud and identity theft in San Diego federal court. The scam is among several that investigators have uncovered in recent months involving fraudulent COVID-19 unemployment payments to prison inmates, including notorious convi...

By Adam Beam • Updated on December 18, 2020 at 1:05 pm Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Among the more than $110 billion in unemployment benefits California has paid this year to people who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus, $21,000 went to an address in Roseville under the name and Social Security number of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The Bank of America, which contracts with the state to provide benefits to people on debit cards, flagged the claim for possible fraud. Federal investigators later found at least $2 million worth of fraudulent unemployment claims had be...