INDUSTRY – A Hacienda La Puente Unified employee convicted of workers’ compensation insurance fraud will pay more than $10,000 in restitution, be placed on probation and perform community service.
Julio Santiago, a 53-year-old former security guard for the school district, pleaded no contest Thursday to a single count of insurance fraud.
As part of his guilty plea, Santiago is paying $10,600 in restitution, serving two years’ of probation, and will perform 119 days of community service. He also spent two days in county jail.
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Santiago was arrested in March after investigators uncovered evidence that he was working as a private security guard, even while claiming he had a knee injury that prevented him from working at the school district.
Santiago is one of several Hacienda La Puente employees to be accused of, or convicted of workers’ compensation fraud in the past few years. At the time of his arrest, he was the sixth employee the be accused of fraud since January 2011.
In May, a child-development teacher was ordered to pay $5,000 to the district after investigators found she was working at another job while on disability leave for injuries she claimed occurred at Hacienda La Puente.
