Easy Money Documentary Chapter 6: The Middle Ages

As EDD grappled with the new wave of disability fraud, Director Rita Saenz was moving on. Gov. Newsom announced in January 2022 that Saenz was out and Nancy Farias, a chief deputy director, would become EDD’s third director since the pandemic began. After the first four chapters of our “Easy Money” documentary were released, Assemblymember Jim Cooper announces on a KCRA Facebook Live that he’ll introduce a new bill to allow law enforcement to seize those assets. But he’s skeptical that it will advance out of committee.