Janitorial Firm Owner Charged With $32M Premium Fraud

The owner of a San Francisco Bay area janitorial firm is accused of underreporting payroll in order to reduce her company’s workers’ compensation premiums by $32 million, the California Department of Insurance announced late Thursday. Lafayette resident Gina Marie Gregori, 55, is charged with 19 felony counts and was being held on $5,235,000 bail at the San Francisco County Jail on Thursday. The charges include insurance fraud, grand theft and white collar crime enhancement, a section of the penal code used when the amount allegedly stolen is greater than $500,000. Insurance...