This what I find funny and ironic you send the money to the wrong address but you send the bill for the taxes to the right address make it make sense

Makes me wonder if some people working within the EDD are part of the scam.

The fact that over $17B was grifted by scammers; and that this scam took place inside prisons speaks volumes for how this EDD failed the real people who needed this money.

Some of these thieves are actual employees of the organization. They would know how to do it better.

One person at EDD to deal with identity theft cases........ That person quit. 😂😂

my peers ran up a quarter million off this while i got abused as an essential worker. things need to change.

Thank you for finally getting a detailed report out. People need to be held accountable. So many that needed the assistance never received the relief. How man of them ended up homeless.

This makes me sad. I worked the entire time paid my rent the entire time. What was my reward….a $400 rent increase. Oh and for those of us who saved to be home buyers, home prices increased by over $100k. This is America. There are zero rewards for doing the right thing.

Why didn't they see in the database that the same address is being used multiple times???? Huge red flags. WTF

What's enraging about these EDD idiots, is that a few years back they denied me a legitimate claim after I was let go of a company. But they approved criminals with up to 70 EDD cards each. This is just a fng joke. I hope those EDD officials go to prison too for gross mismanagement of the people's taxes

It says something about how many liars and thieves we must have in this country.

Unbelievable lack of response at all levels of government

The trouble with public employees many are lazy, arrogant and crooks.

They need to be audited every year.

There are no words to adequately sum up this level of incompetency on so many levels.

I am one person who's lost over 51,000 from an overpayment by the government who refuses to pay it back I only owed $7,000 on an overpayment and it was taken care of so how do you explain the state of Salem not returning 51,000 that I can really use right now from my caregiving and my benefits that I paid back into the refusing to pay me back 51 Grand how do you explain the state US Treasury stealing 51,000 and not paying me back they took my money and used it for their habits and I'm sick and tired of being lied to and used and abused I have never stole money from anyone but being falsely accused and slandered by a government that didn't check their facts but went by hearsay of a family sibling of mine stating I never paid my bills and that I was married never been married paid up all my bills and I very sick and tired of the government lying about the truth when someone has a revenge been dead a torch someone who never did them wrong they covered up the acts of their own crooked crimes I'm very appalled that someone can use me for the wrong reasons

She retired with a full pension leaving the edd bankrupt , wonderfull

I had to wait 3 months to be denied. I appealed and had to wait another 3 months to go before a Judge to prove my identity, then I had to do an ID.me video call to prove my ID again. It was such BS.

Remind me to never move to California.

This is what happens when a director has been around for 37 years!

If people in California want to know why their taxes are so high, this should help - cost the state taxpayers roughly $2,500 per household.

If you think unemployment fraud was bad, you should look into PPP fraud. As bad as the state did administering unemployment, private banks did much worse administering PPP. Well, worse for the taxpayer, better for the lenders who got a cut of loans issued

"Somebody" at EDD wasn't doing their job. If they aren't doing their job, why are they still on the payroll? There are a whole lot of supervisors who should be applying for their own EDD cards!

Complete utter Incompetence!

Why in the heck would the government send someone a debit card in the mail? They should have just had a transfer into their bank account.

This is a great documentary.

same in texas, homies pulling up to walmart in a BMW whipping out their lonestar card for steaks

This is what happens when there is zero accountability from EDD/DOL.

I bet those from the EDD who retired or stepped down are/will get every dime of their retirement and benefits faster that even the fraudsters get paid

So who at EDD were arrested and prosecuted?

I'm a mail carrier in Detroit Michigan and I've seen these letters in crazy amounts! Smh!

Thank you KCRA. Excellent report and thank you for caring.

I’d like to know what the mail man was thinking.

The mismanagement of those funds is sickening, how is it even possible? +19billion dollars stolen! Unbelievable.

I tried using EDD several times for job help. I was declared ADD disabled and given an employment counselor who never helped me get a job. The local college ended up helping me with a resume not the EDD. I got my own job. I have NEVER gotten a job through our local EDD. THEY'RE A COMPLETE FAILURE!!!!

This was a FANTASTIC REVIEW OF STATE WORKERS NOT BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE! Fire them!

As recession fears mount on Wall Street and inflation remains well above the Fed's 2% target, some of the top commentators in markets, business, and economics have been sounding off on just how bad they think the next downturn might be - and how far stocks may have to fall. I need ideas and advice on what investments to make to set myself up for retirement, my goal is to have a portfolio of at least $850k at the age of 60.

Such a relief to get to the end and see that so many of the big shots who were responsible for this massive mess in the first place are serving real jail time. Nah I'm just kidding, nothing happened to a goddamned one of them.

This whole saga peaked when the guy dropped a song about EDD. It was all downhill after that lol

Thank you to the local journalists who are keeping track of these stories. Please keep reporting on it. We need to hold the EDD, Bank of America, and scammers accountable.

The whole EDD department should be dissolved and rebuilt from scratch, this is total disregard of our taxes, heads need to roll!!!

They have dropped my claim out of nowhere twice and it has been impossible to contact them. I am disabled and I struggle to feed myself. I don't expect my government to be very helpful but this has felt cruel.

1 EDD card was worth 30k and could get shipped anywhere, everybody wanted one. It was like the new California gold rush

How could you not see this happening before it started this baffles standard intelligence beyond belief surely ....? ....!!!!!?

I do not care about "across the country" it is what the EDD office did nothing!!!!! and yet, the director just retired full pension even though she failed utterly to perform her job!!!!

That's nothing compared to the crimes by all the corporations, billionaires, pharmaceutical industry, oil industry commits every single day. This is peanuts in comparison.

I know a bar owner who received nearly $2 million PPP loans that are forgiven or barely any payments. His bar thrived during Covid. Didn’t need money at all.

Wait! @41:00 minutes they claimed that the $11B plus in fraud could have paid for 16,000 Californian homes OR a mere 2,000 students four-year tuition at a California college. That's an eight-fold difference. You are telling me that half of a year's tuition is somehow equivalent to buy a house, in California? That's messed up.

Don't break windows of "peoples house". Break the windows of the owners of your country and look at their bank account to tell who they are. The world is past time for an American French Revolution

Just looked up all the directors that have been in that position (Director EDD) Since 2020. 3 of them, all life long state employees. Incompetent, public sector loosers. We're doomed

This is what investigators news used to be, Kudos.

Seems like there’s a system of love towards criminals and strangulation to law obiding citizens.

I saw so many people do this and benefit, while those who actually needed it were denied and lost everything and still can't get anything. Even had covid...didn't get any of the housing assistance. Housing assistance agencies have disappeared from the county and voting facilities have replaced them. I work in social services and most of the agencies have been dissolved.

It's also an ironic example of how a big banks greed bite them in the a$$. I'm sure when BofA agreed to handle debit cards for the state, they thought they would make some big $$ in fees. And deciding to issue the cheaper cards (with no RFID or Chip security) they would make a killing... but it came back to bite em, because ultimately BofA has to EAT that loss. Serves them right! So this is Karma for them.

this happened in every state not just in CA

This vid is so disturbing. The fact the gov is so non responsive leads me to believe this goes all the way to the top.

The government played a part in this for sure.

But yet we can not even log onto the site to provide required proof of self employment. It's a nightmare! Our lives revolve around a broken go government agency with no accountability. How long can they threaten and terrorize us? We simple have been locked out of site. What a disaster.

Wow speechless 😶 wtf 😳

I will never understand the level of greed some people are motivated by.

The store owners were just as willing to take the money! Shame on them when they became aware!

I received a letter from EDD last year, requesting more information. I live in Louisiana. I went online and filed a fraud alert on the EDD website.

why is it that the postal workers delivering edd mail to empty address not notice this?

Here in South Africa. This is so normal. Hundreds of people working for the government are involved, creating ghost employees within government departments. If it is anything in the US like it is here, for sure they have people inside involved.

Reason like this is why a woman or man should do a background check before they get into a serious relationship with a woman or man who knows what kind of debt they are hiding

This is by far the best fraud documentary made ever. The reason behind calling out the best is, you don't not expect this to happen in your backyard, me in "self-denial" I guess.

These crooks need to go away for life.

Unf$&@g-believable! The incompetency of this state is sooooo astounding!!! I would sue EDD for being so f$&@ incompetent!! How could they let this happen..???😖

It’s my money and I want it now !

So it is possible for any officer to ROB an innocent person using Civil Asset Forfeiture but it is NOT possible to use it on actual criminals. If that is not a great reason to wipe out civil asset forfeiture, then I don't know what is.

People need to go to prison over this, and some of them work for EDD!!!

If it was someone who was legitimately supposed to collect unemployment and the government made a mistake and cut them off, those innocent people probably got arrested or had their lives ruined.

All of a sudden it just got really hard to get EDD. You had to jump through a bunch of hoops do some screen time thing.

I been struggling these scammers have ruined my life. I hope they put all these scammers under the prison. I worked for any money I was entitled too and they stole it. I was disabled during this pandemic I couldn’t apply for Edd I was off work. And they won’t answer the phone I been dealing with this since 2020

Tell me about it I got over $35,000 stolen out of my EDD account and it still hasn't got refunded

What was the benefit to EDD not to put in place fraud protection? Budget? Well when this budget was approved did no one notice no safeguards? Profound incompetence and good luck getting the money back.

The only people who will ever go to jail over this will be those who don’t pay that tax bill. Zero people in gov or the actual scammers will go to jail.

The EDD keeps approving the scammer even though I keep providing proof I am me living in the same place since 2017. The person changed my last name. It don’t even match my SSI number

So, the cost of education for 2,065 students is equal to the amount of 16,789 homes in California. Not only is the EDD a problem but the cost of higher education is a problem as well.

I live in Fresno and we had a vacant house for sale during COVID and the mailbox was being shot-gunned with mail for multiple EDD "applicants" using that address. Id estimate easily over 30. I called EDD, sat on hold for 2 hours, finally got thru and they coulda gave a 💩. Literally asked me what "and what do you want us to do about it"? I reached out to Jim Pattersons office too. They never got back to me. Just ended up shredding them. Then the overpayment notices started pouring in 🙄

Perfect example of the criminal incompetence of the state government of California. The people who administer EDD should be in jail.

Ok ok ok BUT WHY DO THIS DOCUMENTARY, IF IN FACT YOU DO NOT HOLD THESE OFFICIALS/EDD EMPLOYEES ACCOUNTABLE??

Also this is just another example of America 🇺🇸 disdain for holding ppl accountable when Sh#@ goes sideways in the agencies.

Weird, this is exactly how the voting went in California...

It's amazing the systems these fraudsters come up with. Would it kill them to get a legitimate job and apply those skills?

"wow" it appear the same type of scam happened here in Canada. A lot of people were denied help and could not get help. Yet, big companies like Bell Canada who were profiting from the pandemic were able to get millions of dollars in these programs. When some people wanted an investigation into the fraud, the government stopped them and allowed them to keep the money and everything, while the average person never got any benefits.

Thanks for the education 🙏🏾. Real people are working harder

You think this is bad the bank paid multiple fraud claims and watching these people get away with it over and over was even more sickening!

I have a small business. I've paid thousands and thousands in taxes to EDD to the unemployment pool. I really want that money to go to people who need it... not scammers. I can't believe billions have been lost. EDD employees and contractors should be held accountable and the scammers should be in jail.

You deserve the govt. you vote into power.

i was misinformed, i heard california was a poor/struggling state. sigh of relief the other crooks found the billions.

thanks for exposing

And I’m pissed bcuz my claim is legit and I haven’t received my only income since DEC 14 2021 and I’m behind on bills and I need my money NOW..!!

Thanks for sharing this video, however, people who do things like this we definitely Reap What They Have Sowed in the End for Sure!

Newsome has a hand in this

This is actually crazy

Incredible public employee incompetence. Billions not tracked? WHAT? The gov of CA was / is aware, mayors knew also. Votes matter it appears. Interference with audits ought to be criminal. Incredible! Private businesses would not tolerate this type of incompetence! SMH.

All of California EDD management should go to prison

The fact that Governor Newsome was not recalled last year for this alone is beyond me..

"Someone ought to investigate"...Gee...ya think ?!!!!