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Charlottesville’s Leslie Macko, who stood at President Obama’s side as an example of people who need unemployment benefits, actually lost her job because of after a conviction for prescription drug fraud. Jessica Jaglois at CBS-19 dug up this gem, which certainly has the potential to become national news. Macko said that she’d been laid off from ACAC, and needed unemployment benefits extended since there were no other jobs to be had. In fact, ACAC fired her after she was convicted. Which leaves me wondering how she’s getting unemployment. Don’t you have to be laid off to be eligible?

07/29 Update: ACAC has added an update to the story to clarify something that definitely wasn’t clear the first time around, which is that her firing had nothing to do with her drug conviction. She was convicted of prescription drug fraud (and, in another incident, grand larceny), and she was fired, but that the two aren’t related.

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News, Charlottesville · Government, Business, Law and Justice

cvillenews.com · Woman Who Appeared with Obama a Convicted Criminal RSS Comment Feed Bookmark on del.icio.us

Charlottesville’s Leslie Macko, who stood at President Obama’s side as an example of people who need unemployment benefits, actually lost her job because of a conviction for prescription drug fraud. Jessica Jaglois at CBS-19 dug up this gem, which certainly has the potential to become national news. Macko said that she’d been laid off from ACAC, and needed unemployment benefits extended since there were no other jobs to be had. In fact, ACAC fired her after she was convicted. Which leaves me wondering how she’s getting unemployment. Don’t you have to be laid off to be eligible?

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because of a conviction for prescription drug fraud. Jessica Jaglois at CBS-19

dug up this gem, which certainly has the potential to become national news.

Macko said that she&#8217;d been laid off from ACAC, and needed unemployment

benefits extended since there were no other jobs to be had. In fact, ACAC fired

her after she was convicted. Which leaves me wondering how she&#8217;s getting

unemployment. Don&#8217;t you have to be laid off to be eligible?

 

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because of after a conviction for prescription drug fraud. Jessica Jaglois at

CBS-19 dug up this gem, which certainly has the potential to become national

news. Macko said that she&#8217;d been laid off from ACAC, and needed

unemployment benefits extended since there were no other jobs to be had. In

fact, ACAC fired her after she was convicted. Which leaves me wondering how

she&#8217;s getting unemployment. Don&#8217;t you have to be laid off to be

eligible?

07/29 Update: ACAC has added an update to the story to clarify something that

definitely wasn&#8217;t clear the first time around, which is that her firing

had nothing to do with her drug conviction. She was convicted of prescription

drug fraud (and, in another incident, grand larceny), and she was fired, but

that the two aren&#8217;t related.

 

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