{"id":48878,"date":"2022-01-27T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=48878"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:59:31","slug":"owner-manager-allegedly-under-reported-workers-compensation-insurance-under-paid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=48878","title":{"rendered":"Owner, Manager Allegedly Under Reported Workers&#8217; Compensation Insurance, Under Paid Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Los Angeles County<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0Charges were filed Thursday against two executives of a poultry processing company for underreporting their payroll to workers\u2019 compensation insurance carriers and failing to pay their employees as required by law, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Feng Wu Lam, 49, and her husband Wei Wen Wu, 54, both of Arcadia each face 43 felony counts: two counts of conspiracy to commit wage theft, 34 counts of grand theft of labor,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14523 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Courtroom-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/> and six counts of insurance fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Additionally, each defendant faces two misdemeanor counts of wage theft. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The complaint also includes a special allegation of theft exceeding $500,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Lam is the owner of South El Monte-based Golden Food, Inc., and Wu is the company\u2019s manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6360 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/District-Attorney-Los-Angeles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"261\" \/>Between 2015 and 2019, Lam and Wu are accused of underreporting their payroll to their workers\u2019 compensation insurance carriers by about $4.5 million, resulting in unlawfully avoiding approximately $1.7 million in workers\u2019 compensation insurance premiums. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The couple also is accused of underpaying at least $437,542 to their 34 employees who debone and package chicken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cWage theft takes hard-earned money away from working people and their families,\u201d District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n said. \u201cUnfair business practices like these affect not just workers but also hurt our community by putting law-abiding employers at a competitive disadvantage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cThese business owners not only allegedly underreported payroll to illegally save on workers\u2019 compensation insurance, they also failed to pay their employees for their hard work,\u201d said California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. \u201cWorkers\u2019 compensation fraud can lead to higher insurance premiums for employers who follow the rules and may ultimately hurt workers who are legitimately injured on the job.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned March 29.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County \u00a0Charges were filed Thursday against two executives of a poultry processing company for underreporting their payroll to workers\u2019 compensation insurance carriers and failing to pay their employees as required&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Owner, Manager Allegedly Under Reported Workers&#039; 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