A woman from Vienna, Georgia, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking part in a scheme to scam the Georgia Department of Labor (GaDOL) out of tens of millions of state benefits aimed at helping unemployed people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tyshion Nautese Hicks, 32, and co-conspirators carried out a scheme that resulted in “more than 5,000 fraudulent unemployment insurance (UI) claims to be filed with the GaDOL, resulting in at least $30 million in stolen benefits,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in an Oct. 25 statement.
This was “one of the largest COVID fraud schemes ever prosecuted,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri said….