Overview

• Joyce Turner, 57, admitted falsely claiming she rented a Pasadena home damaged by the Eaton Fire to obtain $28,195 from FEMA.
• She also acknowledged filing an August 2020 California unemployment claim using false work history, leading to $54,360 in EDD payments.
• Turner pleaded to one count of fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits and one count of mail fraud in federal court.
• She faces statutory maximum sentences of 30 years on the disaster-fraud count and 20 years on the mail-fraud count, and she remains free on bond.
• The DHS Office of Inspector General investigated the case, which is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kerry L. Quinn; U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald will preside at sentencing.