Former SF HR Manager Who Defrauded Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars From City Sentenced: DA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A former high-ranking San Francisco Department of Human Resources manager has been sentenced to three years in state prison for his role in a scheme where he defrauded the city out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors announced Monday that Stanley Ellicot, 40, from Oakland, pled 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.

Ellicot was working as the assistant director of Finance and Technology for the Human Resources Department, Workers’ Compensation Division, at the time of the crime, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.

Between May 2019 and January 2024, he stole more than $627,000 from the city by having a friend register a fake business in Illinois called "IAG Services," prosecutors said.

During this time, he added the fake business as a vendor in the city's workers' compensation system and billed more than 600 claims for auditing services, prosecutors said.

On several occasions, Ellicot emailed other employees to process the payments to IAG he had approved, not knowing they were helping him commit fraud, prosecutors said.

Payments from the city were deposited into the fake businesses' bank account before Ellicot transferred the money into his personal account, prosecutors said.

City officials were able to locate Ellicott's bank accounts and freeze the stolen funds before he was arrested, according to prosecutors, who said all the money will be transferred back to the city.

In addition to the other charges, Ellicot also pled guilty in a separate case for his role in a scheme to misappropriate grant funds awarded through the City’s Community Challenge Grant Program, prosecutors said.

"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," San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a statement Monday. "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."