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SAN DIEGO and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 // -- The owner of a San
Diego area roofing company has been ordered to pay $119,000 in restitution
to the State Compensation Insurance Fund as part of the sentencing in a
workers compensation insurance fraud case. Arturo Cuevas, 43, owner of
Cuevas Roofing & Painting, Inc./Western Pacific Design & Development, Inc.,
was also sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to
insurance premium fraud.
Cuevas also pleaded guilty to one count of willful failure to
collect/pay unemployment taxes, and one count of filing a false tax
return. On these counts, Cuevas was ordered to pay restitution of $44,000
to the Employment Development Department (EDD) and $8,000 to the Franchise
Tax Board (FTB).
After receiving a tip, the San Diego County District Attorneys Office
contacted State Fund. Cuevas workers compensation policy was reviewed and
later the DAs Office served him with a search warrant in order to review
company files. Documents obtained from the search served as evidence. State
Fund auditors later reviewed the documents and uncovered that Cuevas had
paid thousands of dollars in cash to employees and did not report these
wages to SCIF.
"The San Diego County District Attorneys Office continues to do
yeomans work in its prosecution of workers compensation fraud," said
Donna Gallagher, who manages State Funds Fraud Investigation Program
(FIP). "By working in cooperation with the DAs Office, several million
dollars have been recovered."
Cuevas had been insured with State Fund since October 1999.
State Funds Fraud Investigation Program (FIP) addresses all aspects of
workers compensation insurance fraud, including employee, employer,
medical and legal. In the last decade, State Funds FIP has produced
hundreds of arrests and convictions in a wide range of workers
compensation cases, including some considered milestones in Californias
fight against fraud.
Editors Note: Established by the California Legislature in 1914, State
Compensation Insurance Fund is a nonprofit, and wholly self-supporting
public enterprise carrier that provides workers compensation coverage at
cost to all California employers. For more information, please visit
http://www.scif.com .
CONTACT: Vicente Hernandez of State Fund, +1-415-565-1683; or Jim
Zelinski, +1-925-242-0918, or +1-415-420-6050, for State Fund
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