Electrician Pleads Guilty to False Reporting

The owner of an electrical company pleaded guilty to underreporting payroll and agreed to pay $17,762 in unpaid workers’ compensation premiums and penalties, according to the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I).Harold E. Stone, owner of the Electric Company in Spokane, avoided paying workers’ compensation premiums for years by paying workers in cash, not reporting some of his employees and underreporting the hours worked by others, according to a post on the department’s fraud blog, “Nailed.” Stone pleaded guilty to two counts of false reportin...