The recently fired human resources manager for the City of San Francisco just added another arrest to his scorecard: in addition to stealing city funds to buy virtual reality headsets to sell on eBay for profit, a scheme that got him arrested and fired, Stanley John Ellicott was handcuffed Thursday for his involvement in workers compensation fraud.
According to media reports, Mr. Ellicott, who dipped into the earthquake-prone city’s earthquake fund to buy the electronic gaming equipment, is now accused of helping to steal $627,000 of the city’s workers comp funds in a kickback scheme that involved bogus claim audits.
Held on $50,000 bail, he faces five dozen charges related to his tangible involvement in the ordeal in which he allegedly added a phony auditing firm to the city’s list of workers comp vendors.