Manchester Man Charged In $17K Workers' Comp Fraud Case

MANCHESTER, CT — A Manchester man was arrested Friday on felony charges for allegedly taking a second janitorial job and performing the same work for which he was collecting workers’ compensation, state authorities said.

State Department of Criminal Justice officials said Dronald Gordillo 34, of Niles Drive, Manchester, was arrested by inspectors from the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney on an warrant charging him with one count of fraudulent claim or receipt of benefits and one count of perjury.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Gordillo collected workers’ compensation benefits as a result of a work-related injury he reported suffering in June 2017 while employed by one company contracted to perform janitorial work in bank branch offices.

Surveillance conducted multiple times in October of 2017 showed Gordillo doing the same job for another company now contracted for the work by the same bank, the warrant states. It further states that Gordillo stated under oath during a deposition that he had not been working since the reported injury.

According to the warrant, Gordillo collected $17,408 in Workers Compensation that he was not eligible to receive.

Gordillo was released on a written promise to appear in Hartford Superior Court, on Oct. 22, 2018.

The charge of fraudulent claim or receipt of benefits in excess of $2,000 is a class B felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Perjury is a class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

The case is being be prosecuted by the state workers’ compensation fraud control unit.

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