A former high-ranking San Francisco city employee was sentenced on Monday to three years in state prison after pleading guilty to multiple felony counts tied to a yearslong public corruption scheme that siphoned more than $627,000 from the city’s workers’ compensation system.
Stanley Ellicott, 40, was sentenced by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Bruce Chan following convictions on seven felony counts, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. Ellicott was remanded into custody at the sentencing hearing and is being held in San Francisco County Jail pending his transfer to state prison.
“I’m pleased that through our persistent searching we were able to locate Mr. Ellicott’s numerous bank accounts and freeze all of the stolen funds before we arrested him,” Assistant District Attorney Erin Loback said. “The taxpayers of the City and County of San Francisco will be made whole with the return of every penny of the stolen $627,118.86 back to the City’s Worker’s Compensation Fund.”…