"A former high-ranking San Francisco city employee was sentenced on Monday to three years in state prison after pleading guilty to multiple felony counts tied to a yearslong public corruption scheme that siphoned more than $627,000 from the city's workers' compensation system. Stanley Ellicott, 40, was sentenced by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Bruce Chan following convictions on seven felony counts, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office."
""I'm pleased that through our persistent searching we were able to locate Mr. Ellicott's numerous bank accounts and freeze all of the stolen funds before we arrested him," Assistant District Attorney Erin Loback said. "The taxpayers of the City and County of San Francisco will be made whole with the return of every penny of the stolen $627,118.86 back to the City's Worker's Compensation Fund.""
A former San Francisco city employee pleaded guilty and received a three-year state prison sentence after convictions on seven felony counts in a public corruption scheme. The scheme siphoned $627,118.86 from the city's workers' compensation system and occurred from May 2019 through January 2024 while the employee worked in the Department of Human Resources' Workers' Compensation Division. Authorities located and froze numerous bank accounts and recovered all stolen funds for return to the city's workers' compensation fund. The guilty plea resolved two separate fraud cases and included charges such as misappropriation of public funds, grand theft, financial conflict of interest, fraudulent claim presentation, money laundering, and aiding and abetting a financial conflict of interest.
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