Landscaper Charged with $28,000 Fraud

A Quincy landscaper has been indicted on charges that he collected more than $28,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while working under a false identity, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced.According to the allegations, Paulo DaSilva, 53, suffered a work-related injury in August 2010 and began collecting total temporary disability payments. While receiving those benefits, he allegedly took another landscaping job in April 2011, using an assumed name. While DaSilva was working at the second job, he underwent an Independent Medical Examination to confirm that his injury was w...