Co-conspirators sentenced in insurance fraud plot that took $30 million from Georgia Department of Labor

WASHINGTON — Nearly three years after charges were unsealed in a plot to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor for millions of dollars, three more people from Central Georgia have been sentenced to prison.

According to the United States Department of Justice, Macovian Doston, 31, from Vienna, Shatara Hubbard, 36, from Warner Robins, and Torella Wynn, 33, from Cordele, conspired with others to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor of $30 million during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A news release from the department of justice says the group put more than 5,000 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims through the Georgia Department of Labor's system, resulting in millions in 'stolen benefits' from March 2020 through November 2022.

The DOJ contends that Doston, Hubbard, and Wynn, along wit