Report: Construction Fraud Ring Allegedly Ducked More Than $600K in Premiums

Authorities in Southern Florida said a family-run criminal organization used shell companies to defraud workers' compensation carriers out of more than $600,000 in premiums by underreporting actual payroll. An arrest warrant affidavit filed Wednesday and posted online by WPEC, a CBS affiliate in West Palm Beach, alleges that the scheme involved concealing about $9.42 million in payroll spread across three companies on policies that ran from 2024 to 2025. JNJ Construction Services Inc. allegedly reported $1.7 million in payroll for a period during which it allegedly processed $4.4 mi...