Swampscott Resident Indicted For Unemployment Fraud

This information came from the Mass. AG's Office.

A Swampscott woman was one of nine people in the Commonwealth indicted or arraigned in March for collecting unemployment benefits while they were working.

Alicia Sullivan, 31, was indicted March 31, by a Suffolk County grand jury on 51 counts of unemployment fraud and three counts of larceny.

Sullivan is alleged to have fraudently collected more than $17,000 in benefits while working and collecting. 

Sullivan applied for and received unemployment benefits on three occasions between May 2005 and February 2009, according to the Massachuestts Attorney General’s Office.  

Sullivan was allegedly working full time for four different employers and failed, at the appropriate times, to disclose her employment status to the division of Unemployment Assistance.

 The defendant is scheduled for arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court on April 14.

“The unlawful collection of unemployment benefits is a drain on taxpayer funds and also from the people who are rightfully deserving of benefits,” AG Martha Coakley said. 

The cases are the result of investigations referred to the Attorney General’s Office by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development’s Division of Unemployment Assistance