A former New Jersey State Museum employee has been charged with collecting over $31,000 in unemployment benefits while working full-time for the state.
Shavion Brooks, a 37-year-old Trenton resident, faces a criminal complaint of theft, falsifying and tampering with public records, and lying for 58 weeks in 2020 and 2021. He’s accused of using the Department of Labor website to falsely certify weekly claims.
“As alleged, the defendant took thousands of dollars in benefits meant to help folks who are out of work while she was getting paid full time by the State, and then she lied about it,” said Attorney General Matt Platkin. “As these charges attest, we take maintaining the public’s trust in government, and the stewardship of public resources, seriously.”…