Ohio Man Guilty of Fraud, Illegally Collected $30,000 in Workers’ Comp

Frank Fogle, a Barnesville, Ohio, (Belmont County) truck driver, has been sentenced for fraud after he concealed his employment in order to continue receiving workers’ compensation benefits.

Fogle was found guilty in a Franklin County courtroom of a fifth degree felony of workers’ compensation fraud and must repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) the more than $30,000 he collected illegally.

BWC’s Special Investigations Division received an allegation from an anonymous source in 2008 that Fogle was working as a truck driver for DB Trucking in Bethesda while receiving Temporary Total Disability benefits for a previous workplace injury.

An investigation confirmed that Fogle was employed at DB Trucking and knowingly concealed his return to work so that he would continue to receive those benefits.

Injured workers are prohibited from returning to work while on Temporary Total Disability.

As part of a guilty plea Fogle submitted in February, he agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $30,364.70 and $2,000 for investigative costs. On June 13, Fogle was sentenced to serve 12 months of incarceration, suspended for a five year term of community control, and ordered to pay the restitution.

Fogle appeared in court with an $18,000 check and that amount was credited toward this restitution figure.

Source: Ohio BWC