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Expert: Ohio lags other states in stopping huge unemployment fraud Josh Sweigart
Ohio unlike other states failed to put measures in place to detect and prevent massive unemployment fraud that’s part of a scheme that could total $100 billion nationally, an expert told the Dayton Daily News.
The widespread fraud also has delayed payment to Ohioans with legitimate claims.
State officials in December identified more than 56,000 claims totaling $330 million as fraudulent. But the number could be much larger. Of the roughly 1.4 million applicants for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, more than half have been flagged as potentially fraudulent.
Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government division, said in an interview with the Dayton Daily News that his company could stop the fraud in two days.
31 applicants seek spot on PUCO after Randazzo resignation
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The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio attracted 31 applicants who are vying for a position on its board after Sam Randazzo, the organization s chair, resigned in the wake of the House Bill 6 scandal.
Included in the list of applicants, who would serve for three years of the five-year term, are Northeast Ohioans including Jade Davis, vice president of external affairs for Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority; James Pawlik, a Cleveland State University adjunct instructor; and Andrew W. Smyser, director of energy services for the Greater Cleveland Partnership.
A number of outgoing or former politicians have also thrown their hat into the ring. Two of the applicants, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith French and Ohio Sen. Sean O Brien (D-Cortland), lost their seats this November, while others including two former members of the Ohio House of Representatives, William Schuck (35th District) and Mike Verich (66th D