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LOS ANGELES<\/h2>\n
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An Antelope Valley<\/strong> woman plead guilty in federal court this morning in a mail fraud scheme that used personal data stolen from elderly victims in an effort to defraud California\u2019s unemployment insurance program out of nearly $300,000, officials announced today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dena Peterman,<\/strong> who also uses the name Dena Buttram,<\/strong> 32, of Littlerock, plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is facing up to five years in prison when she is sentenced in January, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to court documents, over the course of two years, Peterman and her co-conspirators stole social security numbers and other personal identifying information. It was used to defraud the California Employment Development Department.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It administers the state unemployment insurance program. <\/span><\/p>\n

Peterman and her co-conspirators targeted senior citizens<\/strong> as part of the scam, obtaining social security numbers and other personal data from the elderly victims in Oregon and California.<\/span><\/p>\n

They told victims that\u00a0they had an opportunity to be cast in remakes of popular movies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Peterman and her co-conspirators created bogus companies supposedly related to the movie industry with names such as Nine Maids Movie Production, Western Film Animation and High Desert Productions. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Using the stolen personal information, a co-conspirator filed fictitious wage reports with the Employment Development.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, officials said they fraudulently sought unemployment insurance benefits for the people who supposedly worked for the movie companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Employment Development subsequently provided unemployment insurance benefits in the names of these individuals through debit cards that were mailed to addresses that Peterman or her co-conspirators controlled.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result of this scheme, Peterman and her co-conspirators sought more than $290,000 in unemployment insurance benefits, and Employment Development suffered losses of approximately $221,612.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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