Imagine being unemployed and still being able to build a
lakefront home, all you need is a little taxpayer money. Private
investigator Bernie "The Bug" Soldate says he's seen that, and
worse, while trailing fraudsters who are making false
unemployment claims.  "This guy, who was collecting in
Connecticut, built a home on a lake-- it was a palace," Soldate
says. "He wasn't looking for work, he was just building his
home."  Soldate tells the story of another claimant that had
files of accomplices in human resources departments who was in
an arrangements with to bilk the system. This fraudster was on
his second round of unemployment and had notes to "call Ted, and
remind him that if the [government] calls to say I went to him
looking for work and was wonderful, but wasn't a good fit for
the job.”  "People in HR departments would sign him off as
looking for work when he wasn't because they were his friends,"
he says. "This is just the tip of the iceberg-- people get more
and more creative."  According to a recent