The wild corruption case of a SF City Hall Workers' Comp department employee who embezzled $627,118 and blew city money and personal tech gear has ended, and that now-fired employee is headed to prison.

We occasionally find SF City Hall corruption stories that are just plain funny. One example that comes to mind is the embezzlement scheme of former assistant director of finance and technology for the SF City Hall HR workers’ comp division, Stanley Ellicott. He was charged in January 2024 for invoicing the city $14,000 for “earthquake supplies,” though according to his charging statement from the DA’s office, “The actual items purchased were three Oculus virtual reality headsets, four Rylo Action cameras, an HDTV projector, a Nikon DSLR camera worth nearly $2,000, four GoPro cameras, three mini instant cameras, six Microsoft tablets, and four OSMO pocket cameras with expansion kits.” Ellicott admits he then went and just resold most of that shit on eBay.

That scandal got a lot less funny when we learned a couple months later that Ellicott had allegedly embezzled more than $627,000 from the city’s workers’ compensation budget. The young man seemed to know the gig was up, and he pleaded guilty last month.

Now DA Brooke Jenkins just announced today that Ellicott has been sentenced to three years in a state prison.

“Mr Ellicott had enormous responsibility as the Assistant Director of Finance and Technology in the City’s Workers’ Compensation department and he is being held accountable for violating the public trust,” Jenkins's office said in a press release. “I am committed to rooting out public corruption at all levels and protecting residents and taxpayers from fraud and gross misconduct perpetrated by city employees.”

Ellicott started a fake business in Illinois called IAG Services, and between May 2019 and January 2024, he billed the city’s HR workers’ compensation fund for $627,118.86 for “auditing services.” There is no evidence that IAG Services, which was secretly Ellicott’s company, ever did any form of auditing. And this is the sort of thing that auditing is supposed to catch, is it not?

“The website for the Illinois business ‘IAG Services’ created in Oakland – where Ellicott lives – and IAG emails sent to Ellicott’s work address that appear to be created by him,” the DA’s statement adds. “On several occasions, Mr. Ellicott emailed his subordinates [at SF City Hall] and directed them to process payments to IAG that he had approved, enlisting their unknowing and unwitting assistance in his fraud.”

Ellicott pleaded guilty to two counts of misappropriation of public money, grand theft, financial conflict of interest, presentation of fraudulent claim, money laundering, and aiding and abetting a financial conflict of interest in a government contract.

Though ironically, the plea deal he took with that guilty plea resolves his fraud charges, the charges he got for buying VR headsets with city money that he billed as “earthquake supplies.”

Related: SF Worker Who Bought VR Headsets With City Money Now Accused of Stealing $627K In Workers' Comp [SFist]

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