“It’s pretty appalling when you think about somebody sitting in jail collecting unemployment”

From the LA Times comes this:

A convicted killer who got caught because he’d tattooed a graphic mural of the murder scene on his chest raked in more than $30,000 in unemployment benefits while he sat in the Los Angeles County jail system, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

Anthony Garcia, 26, had family and friends cashing his $1,600-per-month checks while he served time, said Capt. Mike Parker, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His accomplices would then deposit a portion of the money into Garcia’s jail account. They also shared the cash with Garcia’s fellow incarcerated gang members.

 

Here’s hoping North Carolina’s new unemployment fraud task force doesn’t find this kind of appalling activity as it investigates potential fraud in our state’s unemployment benefits system.