By Joe Eskkenazi : missionlocal – excerpt
Ex-HR manager Stanley Ellicott, earlier charged with selling city-bought electronics, now accused of setting up bonus company to bilk SF
Ex-HR director Stanley Ellicott was arrested for a second time on March 21. He is facing 62 felony counts stemming from an alleged scheme to defraud the city of hundreds of thousands of dollars via a bogus company he established.
In January, San Francisco Human Resources manager Stanley John Ellicott was arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes, including purportedly selling electronics on the internet that had been bought with city money earmarked for earthquake supplies.
This morning he was arrested again and hit with more than five dozen charges — most notably allegedly ripping off some $627,000 from the Workers’ Compensation bureau he oversaw. San Francisco jail records reveal that Ellicott, 38, was booked at 9:07 this morning and is being held on $50,000 bail for his 62 felony charges.
He is accused of establishing a bogus company and using it to loot the very branch of the HR department that he was charged with keeping both technically and monetarily sound…
The January and March cases against Ellicott are unrelated. But it was the investigation into the former that led to today’s arrest and charging. In addition to allegedly selling high-end consumer electronics bought with emergency supply money, Ellicott was in January charged with participating in a larger municipal theft and kickback scheme operated by former Community Challenge Grant director Lanita Henriquez and former Gavin Newsom mayoral staffer, businessman and city fixer Dwayne Jones…(more)
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