HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A Waipahu woman pleaded guilty Monday to filing false tax returns and wire fraud that allowed her to collect tens of thousands of dollars in pandemic-related unemployment benefits.
Court documents say in 2020, Heidi Cafirma, 50, submitted a fraudulent application requesting pandemic unemployment assistance benefits.
Then, documents say from June 2020 through September 2021, she filed weekly unemployment benefit certification forms, falsely claiming she was not working or earning any income…