“In fact, not a single person lost any money,” Natalie Le Demola, convicted of taking part in a $1.7 million unemployment benefits scam from a prison cell where she was serving a term for murder, said in court filings to a judge ahead of her sentencing last year.
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“[Demola] made a cost-benefit analysis and decided that the money and influence, including among fellow inmates, that she stood to gain was worth the additional penalties she faced if she were caught,” prosecutors argued in court documents, as cited in a release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
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