A former San Francisco city employee has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a slew of charges related to the theft of more than $600,000 from his employer.
Stanley Ellicot, 40, defrauded the city’s Department of Human Resources’ Division of Workers’ Compensation out of $627,118 during a 4 1/2-year period starting in May of 2019, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.
Ellicott, who was the division’s assistant director of finance and technology, pleaded guilty to two counts of misappropriation of public funds, grand theft, financial conflict of interest, presentation of a fraudulent claim, money laundering and aiding and abetting a financial conflict of interest in a government contract, according to prosecutors.
The plea settled two fraud cases he was facing.
Prosecutors said in a news release Monday that Ellicott had a friend register a fake business called “IAG Services” in Illinois and then Ellicott listed the company as a vendor in the workers’ compensation system and billed the city for work that was never done.
He also pleaded guilty in a separate case that involved a scheme to steal money awarded by the city’s Community Challenge Grant Program, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
“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,” said Assistant District Attorney Erin Loback, who prosecuted the case.