Surveillance Captures Washington Restaurateur’s Comp Fraud

A Washington man is accused of running a bar while claiming he was too injured to work, a scheme that allegedly provided him more than $230,000 in state workers compensation and federal disability benefits, according to state regulators. Dennis J. Bennett, 63, of Veradale, Washington, was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Spokane County Superior Court on two charges of felony, first-degree theft, according to a press release issued Friday by Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries.