The owner of an Ohio trucking company was sentenced to two years of probation and must pay $144,400 in restitution for failing to obtain workers' compensation insurance on his employees.
The Bureau of Workers' Compensation announced that Robert Tate, owner of Elite TNT Enterprises in Mansfield, Ohio, had been convicted and sentenced on charges of workers' compensation fraud and tampering with records, both of which are felonies.
Tate must bring his comp policy up to date, and pay the bureau $137,447 in unpaid premiums and $6,953 for the costs of the investigation.
“We reached out to Mr. Tate several times to follow the law and protect his employees with workers’ compensation coverage, but he chose to ignore us, and it cost him,” said BWC Administrator/CEO Stephanie McCloud.
BWC’s special investigations department discovered in 2017 that Tate was operating his business without coverage. After several attempts to work with Tate, the bureau said agents subpoenaed bank records and audited his business, finding that he under-reported his payroll in an attempt to lower his premiums.
Investigators also found that Tate falsified new applications for BWC coverage by failing to list previous policies with the agency, and he under-reported the number of workers he employed.
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