A 34-year-old Tompkins County, New York man was arrested on charges that he fraudulently accepted $10,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, the New York State Insurance Department reported. James P. Queen, of Groton, was charged with workers’ comp fraud and offering a false instrument for filing. He was arrested by Cortland police and released in his own recognizance pending a hearing to be scheduled in Cortland County Court.
Queen is accused of accepting $3,000 in workers’ comp benefits from the New York State Insurance Fund and stating that he was not working as the result of a job-related knee injury. At the same time, he was employed by a private security business, investigators said. He later collected $7,000 in workers’ comp benefits from AIG Insurance, again falsely claiming he was unable to work because he had injured the same knee.
If he is convicted, Queen could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.
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