More than a dozen people in Southern California have been charged with participating in a workers’ compensation fraud scheme that allegedly siphoned away more than $20 million in ill-gotten retraining vouchers, prosecutors said.
Two of the defendants operated “sham schools” in Riverside and Los Angeles and illegally recruited unqualified students in order to overbill for supplies and collect vouchers worth between $6,000 and $10,000 each, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
The first of multiple defendants spread over three separate ...
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