Posted on 12/30/2016 3:56:04 PM PST by george76
A California man has been charged with setting up fake businesses in three states, then using names taken from temporary visas issued to student visitors on a cultural exchange to obtain more than $355,000 in unemployment benefits for nonexistent workers, federal prosecutors in Iowa said in court documents.
Nikolai Monastyrski is charged in federal court in Iowa with wire and mail fraud related to the scheme that prosecutors say he perpetrated there as well as in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
A complaint filed Nov. 10 by Dana Johnson, a Chicago-based U.S. Department of Labor special agent, says Monastyrski was able to get $114,215 from Iowa Workforce Development in 2014 and 2015 and $230,000 in benefits from Illinois Department of Employment Security. Illinois payouts go as far back as 2012 and some are as recent as earlier this year. Additional claims were made involving two nonexistent businesses in Pennsylvania with payments of more than $11,300 paid out.
The investigation revealed Monastyrski filed the benefits requests from computers in his apartment in Folsom, California, and was observed on bank video cameras withdrawing cash using debit cards on which the unemployment insurance benefits were paid
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Monastyrski used the names of several individuals who visited the United States under an Exchange Visitor Program with temporary J-1 visas, Johnson alleges in the complaint. The program allows about 300,000 foreign visitors per year as a cultural exchange effort
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It’s unclear whether he’s U.S. born, a naturalized citizen or has some other immigration status
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I bet there are tens of thousands of people pulling this scam.
Sounds like he comes from Greece.
yeh,,sumbudy ought investigate ?
And...Maryland vs SC and NC id re kids as dependents drawing welfare on by their relatives here there and everywhere !
I was with Iowa Workforce Development for 15 years. They frown on this, to say the least.
I'm just surprised he got caught. I used to work at a manufacturing plant and every 3 to 6 months they would have to fire at least 10 employees who were working AND claiming unemployment at the same time.
I would think that a sentence of twenty years in state prison might discourage imitators.
Fort Madison is a very old prison.
And there it is.
How many of the fake employees voted?
Another reason why unemployment insurance should be exist.
Certainly seems a little slippery!
Recover that and the other benefits paid to illegal aliens and you could pay off so much of the taxpayers debt, some 20,000,000,000,000 dollars the US has spent on the vanity of liberalism, the sins of multitudes in the valley of derision, half of which obamanation put on taxpayers all by his mishandling of monies he never worked for.
...sounds like Odungo with his 6 social security numbers
Proofreading is your friend ... or not.
Sounds to me like he's Polish.
You know why Polish names end with ski?
Cause they can't spell toboggan.
No wonder he got caught. He was horning in on a thing specifically reserved for the BLM and illegal aliens.
They have to —BO deliberately killed their jobs.
Fort Madison has a brand new 200 million dollar boondoggle/prison, authorized in 2010 when the Dems controlled Iowa state government.
My guess is Albania.....
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