San Diego plumbing contractor ordered to pay over $1 million in workers’ compensation fraud case
SAN DIEGO — Daniela G. Birdwell, a Spring Valley-based plumbing contractor and owner of GPS Plumbing, has been ordered to pay ...
Owner of plumbing company placed on probation, must pay $1 million in fraud case
The company’s owner, Daniela Birdwell, pleaded guilty to one count of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud. Along ...
San Diego woman sentenced for taking bribes to file $850K in false unemployment claims
A former state employee who filed fraudulent unemployment claims in exchange for bribes was sentenced Friday to more than ...
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Former San Diego, California EDD Employee Sentenced to 5.5 Years for Mail Fraud and Bribery Scheme
According to court documents, Brice was employed by the EDD since 2010. During the pandemic, she was responsible for processing COVID-related unemployment claims. However, between July 2020 and May ...
Disability advocates sue Social Security Administration and DOGE to stop service cuts
New Social Security Administration reforms under DOGE are unlawful and harmful to vulnerable beneficiaries who rely on the program, a new lawsuit alleges.
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Ex-California EDD employee sentenced for pandemic-related fraud
Regina Brice, 43, of San Diego, allegedly filed $858,339 in fraudulent unemployment claims ... also allegedly told the inmates how to bypass fraud-checking software, the attorney’s office ...
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Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case
Get top local stories in San Diego delivered to you every morning ... Like Milton, Archer had also been convicted in a fraud case. Right after his Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump notably pardoned ...
A case of mistaken identity kept one man in a San Diego jail for 7 weeks, and cost the other his job
They’re 18 years and two time zones apart. But repeat mix-ups by law enforcement in County have had serious repercussions for ...