{"id":3048,"date":"2022-09-25T23:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2022-09-25T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:22:49","slug":"el-dorado-county-district-attorneys-office-abruptly-halts-archer-allison-morman-workers-comp-fraud-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/09\/25\/el-dorado-county-district-attorneys-office-abruptly-halts-archer-allison-morman-workers-comp-fraud-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"El Dorado County District Attorney\u2019s Office Abruptly Halts Archer\/Allison\/Morman Workers-Comp Fraud Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>The Sacramento Bee<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Sept 25, 2022 \u2014 Charges have been dropped against three people accused of defrauding the state\u2019s compensation insurance fund to save more than $127,000 in workers compensation insurance premiums.<\/p>\n<p>El Dorado Superior Court Judge Mark Ralphs dismissed the charges on Tuesday during the fourth week of a jury trial.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling came after last-minute evidence surfaced that showed the defendants were acting on the professional advice of a Roseville insurance agency. A representative of the insurance agency advised the defendants in an email that a carpentry company qualified as a new business and thus lower insurance rates from the State Compensation Insurance Fund. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Troy Williams, 49 of Angel Camp<\/strong>,<strong> John Allison, 63, of Rocklin<\/strong>, and <strong>Nanci Morman, 68, of Somerset<\/strong>, were charged last May with multiple counts of insurance fraud after a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance and the El Dorado County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a nightmare for me,\u201d said Williams, who suffers from brain cancer. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had contended that Williams, the owner of Archer Building Co. in El Dorado Hills, had conspired with John Allison back in 2016 to move his employees to a new company, Allison Development in Roseville, in order to save on worker\u2019s compensation rates. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Before this month\u2019s trial, Williams said he was offered a plea deal of paying a $127,000 fine and no jail time, if he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges. Otherwise, he faced a multi-year prison term if found guilty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am adamant that I am not going to let my own government try to blackmail me into saying I did something I didn\u2019t do,\u201d Williams said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>While he won\u2019t be paying a fine, his legal bills have cost more than $125,000 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/case-dismissed-last-minute-evidence-abruptly-halts-workers-comp-fraud-trial-the-sacramento-bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before this month\u2019s trial, Williams said he was offered a plea deal of paying a $127,000 fine and no jail time &#8230; \u201cI am adamant that I am not going to let my own government try to blackmail&#8221; &#8230; While he won\u2019t be paying a fine, his legal bills have cost more than $125,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}