A Houston, Texas woman has been sentenced after being indicted in March of 2009 for assisting in concealing payroll and employees from Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
Ellynn A. Ogilvie, the owner of United Crane, Inc. and other related companies, had been paying a lower workers' compensation insurance premium than what was actually owed between August of 2001 and October of 2004.
After being convicted of fraud charges, Ogilvie must now complete 5 years of probation, 450 community service hours, and pay a $2,000 fine. Although she will serve no jail time, another participant in the scheme did not get off so easy. The court sentenced Gary C. Quintinsky in March to 2 years in jail for his involvement.
To some, jail time may seem harsh punishment for the offense, but this most recent scheme was not Quintinsky's first attempt to beat the system. He had previously been involved in the largest premium fraud case in Texas Mutual's history. In 2007, Quintinsky took part in a conspiracy to defraud Texas Mutual of $5 million through workers' compensation policies issued to a variety of companies, including Ogilvie's United Crane, Inc.
But that's not where Quintinsky's story ends. Once his 2-year stint is complete, he will be serving a 42-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion.
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