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Former Florida Guard Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud Dies Before Trial
Loaded on Dec. 3, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2014, page 35
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct.
Location:
Florida.
Former Florida Guard Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud Dies Before Trial
Less than eight weeks before a former Florida prison guard was scheduled to go to trial on charges of fraudulently collecting nearly $3 million in workers’ compensation, he died in a Tampa hospital. Doctors listed his cause of death ...
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