Marcus Brown, owner of Acme Elevator, is going down after being convicted for theft and a workers' comp fraud scheme.
Brown owned Ohio-based Acme Elevator Service and Repair when one of his workers was injured on the job. The employee required a wheelchair lift due to his injuries, so Brown submitted a service invoice for the installation of a lift--three times.
Unfortunately for Brown, the third time isn't always a charm, and a data analysis by his insurance company caught the repetitive submissions, triggering an investigation. After interviewing the injured worker, authorities discovered that a lift had never been installed, despite the three separate invoices that Brown wrote, and the $5,500 in reimbursement that he received for that service.
Brown was charged with theft, and workers' comp fraud. He was sentenced to three years of community control with basic supervision, $5,500 in restitution, a $2,500 fine, and payment of all court costs. Even after serving his sentence, there will be little he can do to repair his good name.
Read about another workers' comp scheme in which two brother face a few centuries in prison here.
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