Two Detroit men and a Warren woman helped a former Michigan resident who is currently in prison operate a $2.2 million scheme that involved submitting 240 fraudulent COVID unemployment insurance claims, officials said.

WASHINGTON – Two inmates have died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where the U.S. government plans to carry out two executions next week. The executions of Christopher Andre Vialva and William Emmett LeCroy are scheduled to be carried out at the prison complex next week. The government carried out three executions in July and two executions in August. Witnesses to the federal executions are required to undergo security screening at the high-security penitentiary, where Bird was housed. The federal prison system has struggled to combat the coronavirus pandemic behind bars, where social distancing is nearly impossible.