This episode is dedicated to Josh Wallwork (1974-2020), who worked in the Costume and Wardrobe Department for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Madam Secretary (2014) and Bull (2016). He died in New York City on 26 Mar 2020; no cause of death was given. His final episode of L&O:SVU is an The Things We Have to Lose (2020).
Fraudulently obtaining $250,000 constitutes Grand Larceny in the second degree, a class C felony which carries a minimum sentence of 3.5 years in prison.
In this episode, first aired on April 2, 2020, Bailey Bass plays a character named Breyona Taylor. On March 13, 2020, a twenty-five-year-old African-American woman with the very similar name of Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in her own apartment in Kentucky by multiple police officers. The close similarity of the names is likely a coincidence; while the shooting of Breonna Taylor eventually caused a national outrage, because the shooting occurred during the first wave of COVID-19 shutdowns, it didn't get significant press, public, or police attention until later in the year.