Do you, Robert, take ‘Jann’ to commit workers comp fraud?

A Renton, Washington delivery driver who used his wife’s name to pull off one of the state’s largest workers compensation fraud cases has been ordered to pay back nearly $340,000, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries reported Tuesday.

Robert J. Strasbaugh was receiving a workers comp pension after a 2003 knee injury deemed him unable to work. An anonymous tip launched an investigation in 2017 that revealed he was going by the name “Jann,” using her Social Security number, and had worked multiple delivery driver jobs around the state from 2012 to 2017, according to a statement.

Found in 2003 to be “totally and permanently disabled,” his subsequent work included loading and unloading freight that typically weighed 100 to 500 pounds and renting trucks to haul apples, according to the statement.

Mr. Strasbaugh, who pleaded guilty on Monday to felony first-degree theft in the case and had already been paying back the state, was also sentenced to 45 days in electronic home monitoring.