SAN DIEGO—A San Diego woman, who used to be a contract employee with the state’s unemployment insurance program, has been sentenced Dec. 15 to just over two years in prison for her role in a scheme to take pandemic unemployment aid funds. Nyika Gomez, 41, who worked as a call center agent assisting people in processing their unemployment insurance claims, admitted to submitting false unemployment claims using personal identifying information she acquired from inmates, with the help of her then-boyfriend, an unidentified inmate serving a 94-years-to life sentence for murder at California State Prison, Sacramento. She pleaded guilty in July to federal wire fraud and aggravated identify theft charges and was sentenced Wednesday in San Diego federal court to 25 months in custody. In one example outlined in her plea agreement, Gomez claimed one inmate was an Arizona-based independent contractor left unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In truth, the inmate was imprisoned in California at the time and thus was ineligible to …