Another deep-blue state caught in billion-dollar web of unemployment fraud, failure

Maryland is under public pressure after a state audit and a series of federal indictments exposed widespread fraud in its unemployment program.

Maryland has paid out close to a billion dollars in unemployment overpayments over the past five years to individuals who were not eligible to receive them, a damning audit of the Maryland Department of Labor has found, much of which has yet to be recovered. At the same time, federal prosecutors are continuing to bring cases tied to identity theft...