Construction Outfit Owner Charged With Ducking $1.8M in Premium Payments

The owner of a Florida construction company was arrested this month after Bureau of Insurance Fraud investigators accused him of ducking $1.81 million in premium payments by misrepresenting the size of his payroll. Jeovene Felizardo faces charges of workers' compensation fraud and running a scheme to defraud, Florida's Chief Financial Officer's office announced Thursday. Felizardo allegedly told his workers' compensation carrier that his total payroll was $76,799. But Bureau of Insurance Fraud investigators accuse him of masking the true size of his payroll by cashing c...