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Probe: Pandemic jobless pay went to Pennsylvania inmates

by Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 1:03 PM

About 10,000 state prison inmates in Pennsylvania fraudulently applied for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said in announcing charges Tuesday against 33 people.

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