People v. Riddles

Opinion

BENKE, Acting P. J.

—In this case, defendant and appellant John Paul Riddles pled guilty to one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud in violation of Insurance Code 1 section 11760, subdivision (a). His conviction grew out of his application for workers’ compensation insurance, which fraudulently represented that a number of nurses who had been placed in residential care and skilled nursing facilities by Riddles’s staffing agency were computer programmers. His misrepresentation of the nurses as computer programmers substantially reduced the premium his agency was charged by the…