SoCal Woman Gets Prison Time for Role in COVID Unemployment Fraud Scheme

Published on December 5, 2023

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 26-year-old woman was sentenced Dec. 4 to more than three years in federal prison Dec. 4 for her part in a state unemployment fraud scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sasha Lizette Jimenez, who pleaded guilty May 22 to a count of a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney to pay $2.3 million in restitution. Judge Carney sentenced Ms. Jimenez to 41 months in federal prison. Ms. Jimenez, who was the bookkeeper for the scheme, caused $2.8 million in phony unemployment insurance benefit cards to be issued with at least $2.3 million withdrawn from the cards, prosecutors said....

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