A North Carolina man has been sentenced to four years in a Florida prison and ordered to pay more than $3.1 million in restitution after pleading guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud case, according to officials.
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced that Carl Delmas Fuller, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, has plead guilty to one count of mail fraud for scamming an Florida-based employment services company into purchasing a fake workers’ compensation insurance policy.
State investigators discovered that a Highlands County, Florida-based company, National Employment Services, thought it had purchased a workers’ compensation policy through a North Carolina agent named David Walters of Southeast Services Inc. The employment company’s records showed it paid Southeast Services over $2.7 million in premiums, for which Walters provided numerous certificates of coverage.
Investigators said they found that the insurance company listed on the policy had no agent by the name of Walters, no affiliation with Southeast Services, nor did it have any business dealings with the employment company.
Bank records later revealed that the business address used by Southeast Services was a private mail box owned exclusively by Fuller and that hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid to him at that address.
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