Owner of Dry Cleaner Charged With Fraud

The Washington Department of Labor and Industries announced that the owner-operator of a dry cleaning business in Olympia faces a felony charge for allegedly faking the severity of his claimed occupational injury. Byung Sung Kang, 54, is accused of stealing more than $21,000 in partial wage replacement payments from June 2018 through August 2019. L&I also said it paid out nearly $50,000 in medical bills, interpreter fees, vocational costs and other benefits for Kang from June 2018 through March 2020. Kang injured his back in the summer of 2015 while working at the dry cleaning busi...