Ex-District worker sentenced for unemployment fraud

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A judge has sentenced a former D.C. employee to probation for collecting unemployment benefits while on the city’s payroll.

Danika Washington, who worked for the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, will serve five years of probation and pay restitution, court records show. D.C. Superior Court Judge Herbert Dixon Jr. also sentenced Washington to a year in prison and three years of supervised release, but he suspended those parts of the sentence.

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