Troy man admits to role in fraudulent COVID benefits scheme
A Troy man has pleaded guilty in a scheme to obtain fraudulent COVID benefits.
Jamaine Myers, 46, admitted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday to conspiring to defraud the New York State Department of Labor by obtaining unemployment insurance benefits under the name of another person.
Myers told the court that he provided Carl J. DiVeglia III with the personal identifying information of a third party, which DiVeglia used to file a false claim.
A Troy man has pleaded guilty in a scheme to obtain fraudulent COVID benefits.
Jamaine Myers, 46, admitted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday to obtaining unemployment insurance benefits under the name of another person.
Myers told the court that he provided Carl J. DiVeglia III with the personal identifying information of a third party, which DiVeglia used to file a false claim, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
DiVeglia previously pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining $1.6 million in unemployment insurance benefits as part of the scheme. Charges against one of Myers’s co-defendants, Todd Ward, are still pending. Two other co-defendants, Christopher Ward and Rocco Resciniti, previously pleaded guilty.