A Florida man was sentenced to 98 days in state prison after pleading guilty last week to charges that he schemed to collect more than $34,000 in workers' compensation benefits while continuing to work, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced in a press release.Douglas Poole, 47, was charged with three counts of workers’ compensation fraud and one count of larceny over $250. He pleaded guilty May 21 to one fraud count and was sentenced by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol Ball to 2 1/2 years in state prison, but with all but 98 days of that term suspended if he compl...
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