Brooklyn ‘Woo gang’ members swiped $4M in COVID-relief funds: feds


Nearly a dozen men associated with the Brooklyn-based Woo gang were charged Thursday with allegedly stealing more than $4 million in COVID-19 relief cash — and boasting about the scam in a music video, the feds said.

The 11 suspects – nine of whom live in Brooklyn – used personal information, including driver’s license numbers, from 800 people to submit unemployment claims worth about $20 million, according to a criminal complaint against them.

The gang members were able to fleece some $4.3 million from the unemployment program between March 2020 and October 2021 as part of the scam, the feds said.
A number of the suspects allegedly flashed stacks of the cash on social media – and made reference to the scam in a rap video for the song “Trappin,” according to the complaint unsealed in the Eastern District of New York Thursday.

The song includes the lyrics: “Unemployment got us working a lot,” a reference to the scheme, according to federal prosecutors.
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