SAVANNAH, Ga. — A woman has been convicted in federal court in Georgia for her role in a multi-state scheme that fraudulently obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic unemployment benefits.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia, Cheryl Galloway,67, of Yulee, Fla., was found guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud following a five-day jury trial in Savannah.
Federal prosecutors said Galloway and her co-conspirators spent nearly two years submitting fake unemployment benefit applications in at least 40 states. Authorities said the group falsely claimed to be eligible for pandemic-related unemployment assistance and misrepresented key details on the applications…