The 31-year-old worker received $29,000 in benefits using someone else's debit card, the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey said.
Ross Clayton, 31, of Irvington, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud, theClayton worked at a United States Postal Service facility in Newark when he swiped unemployment insurance benefits-related mail, including debit cards, prosecutors said.
Clayton applied for unemployment in California on July 13, 2020, under the names of two different victims and obtained a pair of $18,000 debit cards, according to charging documents He spent all of the money on one card and $11,000 on the other before being caught, the court papers state. Clayton was seen on surveillance footage an an ATM in New Jersey using the two cards to withdraw cash on Aug. 16, 2020.The money Clayton took was from the CARES Act, which provided unemployment insurance benefits for people not eligible for other types of unemployment such as the self-employed, independent contractors and gig economy workers.
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