Mother and Daughter Team Sentenced to Prison for Jailhouse Unemployment Insurance Fraud

FRESNO, Calif. — Makiah Miles, 30, of Compton, California, was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison and Apryl Weston, 51, of Santa Maria, California, was sentenced yesterday to 5 months in prison and 5 months home detention for submitting fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to the California Employment Development Department (EDD) in the names of inmates, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
According to court documents, Miles was an inmate at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California, and Weston is her mother.  Miles had previously been convicted of DUI manslaughter.

Read the entire press release.  US Department of Justice, May 7, 2024