According to at least one poll, over 40% of American workers have called in sick when they weren’t. Assuming those numbers are accurate, has nearly half the American work force committed a felony? 

On May 21, the U.S. Department of Justice filed criminal charges against a Georgia man who lied to his employer about testing positive for COVID-19. According to the press release, the man “falsely claimed to have contracted COVID-19 and submitted a falsified medical record to his employer.” The man’s employer, an unidentified Fortune 500 company, reacted by “clos[ing] its facility for cleaning and paid its employees during the shutdown. This caused a loss in excess of $100,000 to the corporation and the unnecessary quarantine of several of the defendant’s coworkers.” DOJ and the FBI secured a warrant for the man’s arrest and filed a criminal complaint charging him with felony wire fraud, a federal offense that subjects defendants to 20 years in prison.  

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