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Home My WebLink About12-17-17 - CRA Santa Parade Thank youFrom:Tearsheet Notification To:Cathy Testa Subject:Indian River Press Journal Ads placed 12/17/2017 Date:Sunday, December 17, 2017 7:06:51 AM Sunday, December 17, 2017 Recipient: Cathy Testa (City of Sebastian) Tearsheets for your requested ads in the Sunday, December 17, 2017, Indian River Press Journal have been posted. You can access your ads via the link below. http://www.shoom.com/etearsheets/adalert.asp?BpW0n6gQc0Y8cMRUR Client:City of Sebastian (1853647) Key Phrase:Thank You Ad Page:A17 Size:3 columns x 9.95 inches Customer Support Email: help@eTearSheets.com Call: 800-446-6646 IC TCPALM.COM z SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017 z 17A TR-SCN0001576-01TR-SCN0001576-01 A BIG THANK YOU TO SEBASTIAN SANTA PA RADE PA RTICIPANTS! 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If you participated and we didn’t get your name – Thank Yo u! Parade and Santa House Sponsored By: GFWC Sebastian Senior Woman’s and Junior Wo man’s Clubs -Sebastian Property Owners Association - Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce -with Assistance of the Public Works Division and Police Department Vo lunteers See Yo u December 1,2018! Want to know the latest about Indian River Medical Center’s search for a partner? Stay informed about your hospital.IRMC has set up a website, IRMCtomorrow.com,designed to provide total transparency and the latest,most accurate information about our search for a partner for the medical center. The website is updated continuously,so check back often to learn the latest news. Keep up to date at www.IRMCtomorrow.com. About half of the 163 injured immigrant workers charged with using false identity documents since 2004 — or 85 — worked for sta leasing companies or, in a few cases, stang companies, according to a Daily News analysis of arrest and court data from the Florida Division of Investigations and Forensic Services and the Oce of State Courts Administrator, as well. The proportion grew in recent years to 85 percent, with 53 of the 62 injured workers reported between 2013 and 2016 employed by sta leasing companies or stang agencies. Sta leasing companies, known as professional employer organizations, become the employer of workers already hired by their client businesses, and manage payroll and benets of workers, who are leased back to the businesses. Stang companies usually recruit workers for companies. Instead of verifying their documents when hiring, sta leasing companies like SouthEast and their in- surers used the law to report undocumented workers after they were injured, court and state records show. SouthEast could have avoided hiring de la Cruz by using E-Verify when he applied. Based on his case re- ports, a quick search would have shown the Social Se- curity number he provided belonged to someone else. A year after de la Cruz was hired, SouthEast’s ali- ated insurer reported him. A few weeks after the injury, he was still unable to move his hand without pain, when ocers knocked on the door of the cramped trailer he rented and arrested him at dinnertime. “I felt it was unfair what happened to me, because I had had an accident,” said de la Cruz, who still works construction jobs when he can. “I wasn’t trying to steal from the company.” Blank, head of the state oce that investigates workers’ comp fraud, said his sta has an obligation to enforce the law if someone’s Social Security number is used fraudulently by a worker. But state prosecutors, who often seek restitution from workers for insurance companies that may have paid benets, rarely seek restitution for victims of sto- len Social Security numbers. The Daily News found only one case in the past 14 years in which the owner of the stolen Social Security number is listed as owed res- titution. Blank said the victims of identity theft may not suf- fer a loss until years later. Employers not prosecuted In addition to the injured workers arrested, state in- vestigators have used the statute to charge more than 600 other workers since 2004 for using false identity information to get jobs. Those arrests were often the result of investigations that identied one Social Se- curity number used by multiple workers or state checks on businesses. But the state agency has done little to hold busi- nesses accountable for hiring undocumented immi- grants they know used false documents. The Daily News could identify only one employer charged since the law was passed in 2003. Arturo Sa- las, owner of a small construction business in Lake Worth, told ocers in a sworn 2007 statement that he knew his workers were using false documents and were here illegally. Short of a at-out confession, state investigators don’t charge employers, even with evidence that man- agers provided phony identifying information to un- authorized workers seeking a job or demanded kick- backs from undocumented immigrants to work. When authorities arrested 12 undocumented work- ers in a Fort Pierce Waste Pro plant in 2012, accusing them of obtaining a job with false identifying informa- tion, six employees told ocers they were hired under the identities of former workers or with false informa- tion provided by managers or another worker. Arrested workers told U.S. Department of Labor in- vestigators they were asked to pay hundreds of dollars in kickbacks to work at the company. State investigators charged the workers for using fake identities, but not the employer. Blank said his oce has investigated companies. “I can tell you, in those cases where we’ve seen mul- tiple people from one company, we’ll look at the com- pany to see if they, too, committed a crime,” he said. Proting from workers SouthEast boasts on its website that it can save businesses money. One pitch promises big savings in workers’ com- pensation costs to companies with a history of above- average injury claims in high-risk industries. Businesses with an annual payroll of $1 million can save up to $100,000 a year if they use SouthEast, one corporate website states. It pledges “aggressive work- ers’ compensation claims handling.” SouthEast and other sta leasing companies prom- ise high-risk businesses lower workers’ comp costs through a bigger pool of employees and work-safety eorts. Denying claims can also help lower workers’ com- pensation costs for sta leasing companies that have a large deductible, which means lower premiums be- cause they must pay some or all of the injury claim. Frank Pennachio, co-founder of Oceanus Partners, a company that provides training and consulting to in- surance agents, said many leasing companies rely on high-deductible policies. “If they have the claims denied, it’s to their advan- tage,” he said. “They don’t have to pay a deductible.” An insurer, Pennachio said, could be encouraged to deny claims from undocumented injured workers us- ing false Social Security numbers so they can show their clients they saved them money. Often after an injured worker was arrested, their employer’s insurer went after them for benets and expenses they may have paid, records show. At least 43 of the workers arrested, about a fourth, were or- dered to repay more than $345,000, criminal court records show. ‘Absolute entrapment’ In some cases, insurers help prosecute injured workers by prodding them to provide evidence that’s later used against them. Workers typically are unaware they forfeit their benets if they provide a false Social Security number to receive workers comp assistance or that they don’t have to provide the number to insurers or adjustors who call, said Molloy, the workers’ comp lawyer. “Those companies have a system in place to set people up,” Molloy said. “It’s absolute entrapment.” Martin Rojas, of West Palm Beach, didn’t know signing some papers and telling the adjustor he was undocumented would land him in jail. Rojas was working in 2014 as a leased employee of SouthEast when he sprained his ankle at his job with Southern Truss Companies Inc. in Fort Pierce. After the accident, a SouthEast-related adjuster in- terviewed Rojas by phone and asked for his Social Se- curity number. Rojas said he didn’t remember it but conrmed it was on his job application, according to a recording of the call. When the adjustor asked if he had a driver’s license, Rojas volunteered he was undocumented. John Byers, owner of Southern Truss, said Rojas should not have been denied workers’ comp benets. “It doesn’t matter whether he is legal or not,” Byers said. “If he is hurt, he is hurt.” Workers Continued from Page 16A Abednego DeLaCruz holds his 10-month-old daughter Jazlyn while his partner, Blanca Menjivar, prepares dinner in their Chattahoochee home. DOROTHY EDWARDS/NAPLES DAILY NEWS