The wild corruption case of a SF City Hall Workers’ Comp department employee who embezzled $627,118 and blew city money and personal tech gear has ended, and that now-fired employee is headed to prison.
We occasionally find SF City Hall corruption stories that are just plain funny. One example that comes to mind is the embezzlement scheme of former assistant director of finance and technology for the SF City Hall HR workers’ comp division, Stanley Ellicott. He was charged in January 2024 for invoicing the city $14,000 for “earthquake supplies,” though according to his charging statement from the DA’s office, “The actual items purchased were three Oculus virtual reality headsets, four Rylo Action cameras, an HDTV projector, a Nikon DSLR camera worth nearly $2,000, four GoPro cameras, three mini instant cameras, six Microsoft tablets, and four OSMO pocket cameras with expansion kits.” Ellicott admits he then went and just resold most of that shit on eBay.
That scandal got a lot less funny when we learned a couple months later that Ellicott had allegedly embezzled more than $627,000 from the city’s workers’ compensation budget. The young man seemed to know the gig was up, and he pleaded guilty last month…