A New Hampshire man has been indicted in a fraud scheme that prosecutors say stole more than $700,000 from California's unemployment department during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A federal grand jury on Thursday returned a 10-count indictment against Anthony Mark Silva, 40, charging him with nine counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California said in a press release.

Prosecutors say that between July 2020 and June 2021, Silva collected personal information, including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers from numerous individuals and used it to file fraudulent unemployment insurance claims through California's Employment Development Department (EDD). The applications sought benefits unde

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