A Los Angeles woman was sentenced Monday to four months in home detention for her role in a fraud ring — led by a woman serving a life sentence for murder — that used the stolen identities of California prison inmates and others to fraudulently obtain nearly $1 million in state unemployment insurance benefits.
Mykara Destiny Robinson, 25, pleaded guilty in April to one federal count of bank fraud. She is the 13th and final defendant to plead guilty in the case.
Federal prosecutors say that from August 2020 to October 2020, Robinson used debit cards to withdraw $68,742 in fraudulently obtained state-issued funds.
The lead defendants in the case are Natalie Le Demola, 38, originally of Corona, who is serving a life prison sentence after she was convicted in 2005 of first-degree murder, and Carleisha Neosha Plummer, 33, of Los Angeles, a close prison associate of Demola’s until her parole in July 2020, court papers show.
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