{"id":14533,"date":"2016-03-30T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14533"},"modified":"2016-03-30T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:51:10","slug":"former-florida-nalc-president-headed-back-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/30\/former-florida-nalc-president-headed-back-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida NALC President Headed Back To Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Men who met in prison headed back after workers comp scheme<\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14534\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lenin-Perez.jpg\" alt=\"Lenin-Perez\" width=\"403\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lenin-Perez.jpg 403w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lenin-Perez-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>TBO | Tampa Tribune &#8211; 3\/30\/2016 &#8211; TAMPA \u2014 The former president of the local letter carriers union, Lenin Perez was in federal prison for receiving kickbacks in health care when he met Lois Luis, a former medical clinic owner serving time for a staged car crash insurance scam.<\/p>\n<p>Both men got out of prison and joined forces in another scheme to swindle taxpayers through kickbacks in the federal workers compensation program, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Luis, also known as Ireno Luis Delgado, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy and paying an illegal remuneration, charges which also carry up to five years behind bars each.<\/p>\n<p>Perez pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy and receiving illegal remuneration, charges which each carry up to five years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, past president of Local 599 of the National Association of Letter Carriers in Tampa, pleaded guilty in 2005 to accepting kickbacks for referring injured letter carriers to a select group of doctors, a massage therapist and the director of a medical care facility. Perez coached the workers how to submit workers\u2019 compensation claims to increase the likelihood of reimbursement. He was sentenced to 21 months behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Before going to prison in that scheme, Perez started Federal Workers Compensation Consultants, offering advocate services to injured federal employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbo.com\/news\/crime\/men-who-met-in-prison-headed-back-after-workers-comp-scheme-20160330\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men who met in prison headed back after workers comp scheme TBO | Tampa Tribune &#8211; 3\/30\/2016 &#8211; TAMPA \u2014 The former president of the local letter carriers union, Lenin Perez was in federal prison for receiving kickbacks in health care when he met Lois Luis, a former medical clinic owner serving time for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14535,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions\/14535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}