Bridge Painter Worked While Collecting Benefits, BWC Says

A former Campbell resident who moved to Florida must pay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation $23,601 after receiving workplace injury benefits while employed and for using multiple aliases to cover his crime. Nikitas Xipolitas, 61, pleaded guilty to a fifth-degree felony count of workers’ compensation fraud, the agency said. A judge suspended six months of jail time and ordered him to serve five years of community control. An investigation confirmed Xipolitas worked on highway bridge-painting projects across the country for several companies beginning in July 2010 while rec...