Federal investigators have broken up what they say is an unemployment fraud ring that targeted the California Employment Development Department, or EDD. The ring pulled in millions of dollars in fraudulent claims from California and other states. A federal criminal complaint obtained by KCRA 3 Investigates said that more than 200 individual unemployment applications were filed with EDD from one Hyattsville, Maryland, address between March and October 2020. EDD approved 97 of those applications. The complaint says that Quazeem Wowolabi Adeyinka, Ayodeji Jonathan Sangode and Olamide Yusuf Bakare applied for unemployment benefits using stolen identities. At least one of them had a Nigerian passport. Working with Bank of America, federal investigators searched through the applications that went to the Hyattsville apartment. The investigators said the number of applications was far beyond what would be normal for a residence that size. The investigation also found fraud being conducted out of another Maryland apartment, where the ring continued to file fraudulent applications through most of 2021. See more in the video above.

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