A Ohio man was ordered to repay more than $22,000 in connection with improperly receiving workplace injury benefits. Gerald Whitacre pleaded guilty May 15 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, a fifth-degree …
A state District Court judge has ordered two men to pay $414,484 in restitution after defrauding people in two states through a driveway asphalting scheme. Livingston Parish Assistant District Attorney Le’Anne Malnar said many of the 33 victims are elderly. …
Jason O. Klein Coshocton County pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) received two complaints about him on its anonymous fraud hotline. Klein appeared before Judge Pollitt in the Franklin County Municipal Court …
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) investigators uncovered fraud in Cleveland with an investigation into Anthony Perry, who was discovered working as a landscaper while receiving injured worker benefits. Perry was sentenced in a Franklin County courtroom last week and …
A former contractor has been ordered to pay $18,750 in restitution for accepting payments on work he never performed at two Chesterfield County, Va., homes. A Chesterfield circuit judge Tuesday sentenced Stephen P. Mills of Chesterfield to five years in …
The Texas State Securities Board has ordered a Corpus Christi securities adviser pay $719,000 in restitution and serve 10 years of community supervision for withholding information from investors. Authorities say 59-year-old William Erik Byrne sold about $1 million worth of …
Two 15-year-old boys have been ordered to pay $10,000 each in restitution for sparking a wildfire that burned six square miles south of Gardnerville, Nev., and cost an estimated $2.8 million to put out. Gardnerville’s Record-Courier reports District Judge David …
A former Kansas insurance agent will have to pay back more than $137,000 to victims of forgery and theft following a Kansas Insurance Department (KID)-led investigation involving non-payment of clients’ insurance premiums to companies. A Crawford County District Court judge …