A Brooklyn gang member was sentenced for fraudulently claiming $800,000 in COVID-19 unemployment insurance between Mar. 2020 and Aug. 2021, Joseph Boicella, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced on Thursday. Darnell Jones, a member of the Ninedee gang, will spend over 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in Apr. 2025 to stealing people’s personal information to obtain money from federally funded unemployment insurance programs associated with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, according to court documents. More on this from Pix 11.
