A former trucking company employee from Normal has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison − the longest sentence ever handed down for workers' compensation fraud in the state.Elbert Rayford Jr. misrepresented his medical condition when he left T.G. Gum Trucking of Farmer City in an effort to obtain roughly $45,000 in workers’ compensation benefits through fraud, state Department of Insurance Director Andrew Boron said.Rayford pleaded guilty to exaggerating his symptoms to doctors and physical therapists to remain off work, collect temporary total disability payments and receiv...
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