A former senior official in the San Francisco workers’ compensation department was sentenced Monday to three years in state prison after pleading guilty to multiple felony counts tied to a yearslong fraud scheme that cost the city more than $627,000, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Bruce Chan sentenced Stanley Ellicott, 40, a former assistant director of finance and technology in the Department of Human Resources’ Workers’ Compensation Division, following his guilty plea to seven felony counts of public corruption. Ellicott was remanded into custody at the sentencing hearing and is being held in San Francisco County Jail pending transfer to state prison under the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
“Ellicott had enormous responsibility as the assistant director of finance and technology in the City’s Workers’ Compensation department, and he violated the public trust,” Jenkins said in a statement. “He is being held accountable.”…