MEWA Officials Sentenced
The architect of an illegal workers’ compensation program that also sold fake Affordable Care Act hardship exemptions and ran a fraudulent pension scheme received a five-year prison sentence, and the …
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Precedent: Employer Held Liable For Bogus PEO
The California Labor Commissioner and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement recently designated a decision as a precedent, upholding two citations against an employer for operating without workers’ comp coverage. …
MEWA Defendants Seek Acquittal, New Trial
The head of an illegal scheme to sell a purported alternative to workers’ comp coverage and the operation’s head of finances has asked a federal district court for acquittal and …
CDI Cuts A Deal With Illegal MEWA
The California Department of Insurance and officials associated with the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) that operated as American Labor Alliance have agreed to settle the government’s case to collect …
More MEWA Developments
State and federal officials are continuing their efforts to hold accountable those behind the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) operation that sold a purported alternative to actual workers’ comp coverage. …
MEWA Fraud Verdict – Finally
Five years after a federal indictment was handed down and nearly eight years after state officials first ordered an illegal workers’ comp program to cease and desist operations, a jury …
MEWA’s Former Attorney Objected To Representations
The federal judge overseeing the prosecution of two officials linked to an illegal workers’ comp program took under submission each side’s pretrial motions in limine to determine what will and …
Finally the MEWA Fraud Case Goes to Court
The five-year-old criminal fraud case against Marcus Asay, Antonio Gastelum, and their American Labor Alliance (ALA) and Agricultural Contracting Services Association is finally going to trial. The U.S. District Court …