Stanley Ellicott has been sentenced to a term of three years in State Prison after pleading guilty and being convicted of seven felony counts of public corruption in connection to a complex scheme that defrauded the city of San Francisco of more than $627,000 directly from the Department of Human Resources’ Division of Workers’ Compensation, and another case where he aided and abetted public corruption.  Ellicott was remanded into custody and is currently in San Francisco County Jail, awaiting transfer to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s custody in State Prison.

Ellicott pled guilty and was convicted of two counts of misappropriation of public moneys, 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. His guilty plea and conviction settled two fraud cases he was facing.

Ellicott was born and raised in Maine. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheaton College and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. Prior to his roles with the City and County of San Francisco, where he began working on and off in 2012, Ellicott was employed as an associate analyst at Moody’s.

Over a four-and-a-half-year period from May of 2019 to January of 2024, Ellicott stole $627,118.86 from the City, where he previously served as the Assistant Director of Finance and Technology for the Human Resources Department, Workers’ Compensation Division. One of his responsibilities was to oversee “the financial integrity of the Workers’ Compensation Division.”

Ellicott enlisted a friend to register a fake business in Illinois called “IAG Services” and open a bank account for the business, which she gave full control of to Ellicott.  Ellicott then added this fake business as a vendor in the workers’ compensation system and over time billed more than 600 actual City workers’ compensation claims with charges for auditing services.

Department archives show no evidence any auditing services were ever performed.  Because the City is self-insured for workers’ compensation purposes, payments to doctors, employees, and vendors related to workers’ compensation claims come directly from the City’s coffers.

All the City payments to “IAG Services” were deposited into the account set up by Ellicott’s friend, then the money was systematically transferred into Ellicott’s personal checking accounts in a pattern to appear like they were payroll payments. In total, he transferred more than $488,000 from IAG’s account into accounts belonging to him.

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. On several occasions, Ellicott emailed his subordinates and directed them to process payments to IAG that he had approved, enlisting their unknowing and unwitting assistance in his fraud.

Ellicott also pled guilty to and was convicted in a separate case for his role in a scheme to misappropriate grant funds awarded through the City’s Community Challenge Grant Program.

The cases against Ellicott were prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Erin Loback, with assistance from District Attorney Investigator Mike Reilly, paralegal Chloe Mosqueda and the entire Public Integrity Task Force.

Investigators were able to locate and freeze all of the stolen funds before he was arrested. The stolen $627,118.86 back to the City’s Worker’s Compensation Fund.”