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Three charged with worker comp fraud
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 8, 2007
MIAMI - Three people were charged Wednesday with fraud and conspiracy for allegedly providing falsified workers' compensation insurance certificates to more than 300 Florida construction contractors. A 21-count federal grand jury indictment names Enrique Guevara, owner of a Broward County accounting business; Erick Brandon, an employee at a Hialeah insurance brokerage; and Alexandra Cordero, who owns a Coral Springs insurance firm, in a scheme that involved about $20 million in construction contracts in 12 counties. "We are seeing this type of activity throughout South Florida and the state of Florida," said Jeff Himmel, the assistant special agent in charge of labor racketeering and fraud investigations in South Florida for the Labor Department. "The result is that the honest business cannot compete," Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said. "I very much hope that this is not a single case, but the first in a series of cases." Marco Sandi, owner of Sandi Construction Co. in Coral Springs, was named but not indicted. The indictment says that Sandi obtained hundreds of false insurance certificates.
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