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State Rep. Francisco Paulino was indicted on federal wire fraud and money laundering charges for allegedly misusing COVID-19 unemployment funds. The charges mark the second local official charged with pandemic-related fraud in weeks.
State Rep. Francisco Paulino was indicted on federal wire fraud and money laundering charges for allegedly misusing COVID-19 unemployment funds. This is the second local official charged with pandemic-related fraud in recent weeks, indicating a broader pattern of abuse during the emergency benefit period.
Pandemic unemployment programs were designed to move money quickly, which created fewer checks and more opportunity for fraud. State and local officials had access to systems and could exploit them. The charges show investigators are now working backward through pandemic spending to find abuse. One case is an outlier; two cases in weeks suggests there are more coming.
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