California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Welfare Fraud Ring Uncovered
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A welfare fraud ring that included five former San Diego County Department of Social Services employees embezzled as much a $1 million in a scheme that operated between 1986 and 1990, district attorney officials said. Prosecutors charged 20 people with 67 counts of welfare fraud in the case, which began by happenstance on March 1, 1990, when a state analyst did a routine compliance audit of San Diego County Department of Social Services’ welfare cases.
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