City Worker Pleads Guilty to Receiving Benefits While on the Job

A city of Amsterdam employee was sentenced to three years of probation supervision, and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution, for defrauding the workers’ compensation system “and stealing benefit to which he was not entitled,” an inspector general said. William Forte, 51, a seasonal maintenance worker for the city, pleaded guilty in Amsterdam City Court to attempted fraudulent practices, said Catherine Leahy Scott, New York state workers’ compensation fraud inspector general. She said an investigation found that Forte was employed as a truck driver in 2012 when he pu...