Reply #37: I hope everyone reads what you are detailing [View All]

[truedelphi]

I had a similar type of thing happen about twenty years ago.

Many years ago, I went off unemployment to work for this real dingbat of an attorney. I quit after three days.

When you are unemployment in CA, you must report the wages as belonging to the week when you worked. Even if you are not paid for that week.

It took me months to get the payment for the few days I worked.

But that was not the real problem. Unemployment decided that I had worked for him during the much later time period. They said I SHOULD HAVE reported the income for that period instead of what the law actually provides.

They could even see on their computer screen that I had reported the amount as their law required.

But they said I was fibbing - and that for that fib, I would spend 16 years in jail.

You have to understand that once it gets to this point, you are in the Fraud department, and those people want a conviction, so that they can get a promotion in a few months.
A friend who is a California lawyer intervened - they listened to her, though they would not listen to me. They kept saying, Who should we beleive - you with your pen and paper journal, or the lawyer who employed you and whose records are on the computer?

This was all over a matter involving less than $ 150!