Sentencing set for woman who cheated SIIS

CARSON CITY -- Sentencing has been set for Aug. 24 in a Las Vegas district court for Doris Wilmoth, 48, convicted of cheating the State Industrial Insurance System out of more than $11,000.

A district court jury last week found Wilmoth guilty of the felony count of obtaining money under false pretenses and the gross misdemeanor of making false statements to obtain benefits. She could receive up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine when she appears before District Judge Jeff Sobel.

Deputy Attorney General Ann Zimmerman said Wilmoth suffered a knee injury in 1984 while working as a computer scanner for a Las Vegas firm. Since then she has received more than $200,000 from the workers compensation fund for medical treatment, monthly checks and training.

She was enrolled in a program to become a bookkeeper. Unknown to the insurance system, she opened her own bookkeeping business in her home and operated it for about 11 months while she continued to collect temporary total disability checks which totaled more than $11,000, Zimmerman said.

Her defense at trial was that her husband and daughter ran the bookkeeping service.

Zimmerman said this conviction will cut off Wilmoth's right to future benefits and the state will seek reimbursement of the $11,000.

Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa said the fraud unit in her office has saved Nevada more than $9.6 million since its inception in 1993.

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