{"id":15629,"date":"2015-09-16T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=15629"},"modified":"2017-02-03T23:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T07:15:18","slug":"four-indicted-for-collecting-unemployment-benefits-through-fake-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=15629","title":{"rendered":"Four Indicted for Collecting Unemployment Benefits Through Fake Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"LADYJUSTICE\"<\/a>A federal grand jury indicted four men\u00a0on mail fraud and other federal charges for their involvement in a scheme that allegedly used dozens of bogus companies to collect more than $4 million in unemployment benefits for \u201cemployees\u201d who never did any work at the sham entities, authorities allege.<\/p>\n

The two defendants taken into custody today are Jack Benjamin Hessiani<\/strong>, also known as \u201cJack Herrera,\u201d 37, of Camarillo, and Hessiani\u2019s cousin, Eduardo Josue Garcia<\/strong>, 24, also of Camarillo.<\/p>\n

The other two defendants in the case \u2013 Hessiani\u2019s brother, James Manuel Herrera<\/strong>, 27, also of Camarillo; and Daniel Ayala-Mora<\/strong>, another cousin of Hessiani and Herrera, 25, who recently moved from Camarillo to Las Vegas \u2013 are currently being sought be authorities.<\/p>\n

\"US<\/a>A \u00a022-count indictment that was returned yesterday afternoon by a federal grand jury. The indictment alleges an overarching conspiracy to create fictitious companies that supposedly employed scores of workers who then sought unemployment insurance benefits by claiming to have been laid off.<\/p>\n

The indictment also alleges substantive counts of mail fraud, use of unauthorized access devices (debit cards) and aggravated identity theft.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, these are the allegations:<\/strong><\/p>\n