Brooklyn gang members lived large on more than $4 million in stolen COVID unemployment funds

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This gov system is so fukkin broken. These dumbfukks shoulda had proper procedures and shyt for proper people to get unemployment. Now my mom has to suffer the wait for these a$$holes to get see if she can get funds. fukkin' hate all these POS who pimp the system that hurts the regular people and the idiots in office who don't know how to run a system. :pacspit:
 

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We sloppy as fck.

Most of our youth brazen enough to do this type shyt are also to short-sighted too not self-snitch and clout chase. Whites on the other had have to literally be caught in the act usually because they are believed to be law-biding citizens until otherwise known …
We guilty even when we innocent smh white folk been raking billions on white collar crime FOH
 

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with ties to the drill rap scene turned the COVID-19 unemployment program into a “bottomless ATM” machine, using stolen identities to score more than $4 million, police and the feds said.

Cops caught wind of the fraud when members of the NYPD’s intelligence bureau noticed that members of the Canarsie-based Woo gang were making trips to California, renting houses, buying expensive cars and posing on social media with stacks of cash at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Christopher Jean Pierre and Keith James. (Court Evidence)

That led to a federal probe with the Department of Labor Inspector General’s office – and on Thursday, the arrest of 11 suspects in a scheme to steal nearly $20 million in unemployment funds.

They got away with more than $4.3 million before authorities cut off the money flow and arrested them, police allege.

They even bragged about the scheme in a YouTube rap video, Trappin’, with the lyrics, “Unemployment got us workin’ a lot.”

In New York State, applicants for COVID-related unemployment were given ATM cards issued by KeyBank, or got the money through direct deposits into existing bank accounts or old-fashioned paper checks.

“The result of this was like gang criminal magic. It was a never ending spigot of money, because when you tapped out the funds from one identity, you simply moved on to another, and to another, and to another,” said NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Public Information John Miller. “Imagine a bottomless ATM that was free, and just spit out cash.”

Early in the pandemic, the state had such a high demand for unemployment claims that its web site crashed, leading Google to help fix and re-design the site.

The system helped people in need apply quickly, but it also offered an opportunity for the gang members to get rich quickly, at least early on, Miller said.

One of the suspects, Romean Brown, 23, was pulled over for blowing a stop sign in Brooklyn in January 2021, and had three KeyBank debit cards on him, according to a federal complaint.

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Jahriah Olivierre and Romean Brown (Court Evidence)

He posted a message months earlier on Facebook, asking if he should open a new chat on Telegram so he could get even more IDs to use. “S--- is too easy,” he said, according to the compliant.

“Individual gang members were purchasing hundreds of names from the dark web, the deep web and criminal sources that included social security numbers,” Miller said.

They’d also get driver’s licenses, often for $150 a piece, according to federal court documents.
They're probably Jamaican and Haitians based on their names. New York is now majority immigrant I think. smh
 

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Let me guess why this shyt is so long a spik in here defending stupid ass mofos

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Most of our youth brazen enough to do this type shyt are also to short-sighted too not self-snitch and clout chase. Whites on the other had have to literally be caught in the act usually because they are believed to be law-biding citizens until otherwise known …
We guilty even when we innocent smh white folk been raking billions on white collar crime FOH

Ok.. White people stole PPP money and turned around and did business with other white people.. And thats what they're supposed to do.

Black people get PPP and what they do with the shyt? I seriously don't give a shyt what a nikka do with their money anyway. Im would like to know why do some black people cry about being disenfranchised and having a lack of resources, then get a shot of money through illegal dealings, and do dumb shyt with it?

If you read above I mentioned that the people I know who got PPP money did real shyt with it.. And I support those same people by patronizing their business. Ive done my part in keeping my dollars in my community..

So while y'all analyzing what white people doing, spend money with your people..
 
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