SCI-Fayette inmate pleads guilty in pandemic unemployment assistance
An inmate at SCI-Fayette has pleaded guilty in conspiring to obtain pandemic unemployment assistance.
Amasa Camp, 24, plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud before Judge Nora Barry Fischer on July 27.
Camp, who’s a former resident of Pittsburgh and current inmate at SCI-Fayette, conspired to commit mail fraud in order to obtain pandemic unemployment assistance benefits; however, due to his incarceration, Camp was ineligible to receive those benefits.
The desired benefit was to be mailed to an address in Philadelphia; however, Camp’s unemployment application was flagged as fraudulent by the state, and no money was paid on the claim.
Camp is scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 9. He could face up to five years imprisonment, a $250,00 fine or both.
Camp was remanded to state custody to continue serving his undischarged state sentence.