Marcus Brown, owner of Acme Elevator, is going down after beingconvicted for theft and a workers' comp fraud scheme.
Brown owned Ohio-based Acme Elevator Service and Repair when oneof his workers was injured on the job. The employee required awheelchair lift due to his injuries, so Brown submitted a serviceinvoice 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 repetitivesubmissions, triggering an investigation. After interviewing theinjured worker, authorities discovered that a lift had never beeninstalled, despite the three separate invoices that Brown wrote,and the $5,500 in reimbursement that he received for thatservice.
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