Comp-cheating bartender’s Facebook post fails to serve her well
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Facebook, the place where everybody knows your name, including fraud investigators apparently, helped catch an Ohio bartender in the act of workers compensation fraud.
Gabriella Benkovits, 26, of Lakewood, Ohio, was collecting on an injury suffered while serving up beers at one bar in 2012, according to the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
“The company managing Ms. Benkovits’s medical claim for her 2012 work injury alerted us that they found a Facebook post indicating she was (still) working as a bartender,” said Jim Wernecke, director of the state’s special investigations department. “Our investigation revealed she worked at three different establishments from July 2015 to February 2016 while collecting disability benefits she wasn’t entitled to.”
Mr. Wernecke said Ms. Benkovits deliberately concealed her employment from the bureau, her physicians and other people involved in her injury case.
She must now repay the Ohio BWC $7,595 after pleading guilty Tuesday to workers comp fraud. In addition to restitution, she must serve two years of probation for the first-degree misdemeanor, a judge in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas ruled.
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