Probe: Dozens of D.C. employees committed fraud

Dozens of District government employees knowingly committed fraud by accepting unemployment checks while holding a city job, according to Department of Employment Services Director Lisa Mallory.

The finding is part of a broad investigation into the overpayment of approximately 130 former city government workers. Of those workers, 93 were found to have been knowingly scamming the system,

while the remaining quarter “weren’t long enough to be fraud,” Mallory testified at a Committee on Housing and Workforce Development budget hearing Monday.