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He will serve five months in prison and receive five years probation, in exchange for testifying at the trial of his former co-defendant and longtime employer.

Eight civilian Philadelphia Police Department employees have been indicted on charges of collecting Pandemic Unemployment Assistance they were not entitled to. Seven of the employees are dispatchers and one is a clerk.

Cyber criminals have been targeting public benefits across the country throughout the pandemic, harvesting personal information that has been leaked through various data breaches to file new claims on behalf of real people.

“What Pennsylvania is seeing is very common across the country,” said James Lee, COO of the Identity Theft Resource Center.

According to court papers, Joshua Hall defrauded donors by falsely claiming he was raising funds to support Trump’s reelection.