Ventura County Business Owners Plead Guilty to Workers' Compensation Fraud
Michael Nuciforo and James Nuciforo, owners of D&J Drywall Painting, Inc. of Newbury Park, California are scheduled for their sentencing hearing on September 22, 2010. Both men plead no contest to three felony counts of California workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Each faces up to nine years in the state prison and restitution is expected to exceed a half-million dollars.
In this case, the men are accused of workers’ compensation premium fraud. This means that the business owners were convicted of lying to their workers’ compensation insurers in order to lower their workers’ compensation premiums.
As a result, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office “Workers’ Compensation Unit” froze $1.5 million of the Nuciforo’s assets, pursuant to California’s “freeze and seize” law which allows the government to preserve money in order to pay restitution and fines.
