Kane’s staffing agency had to provide workers’ compensation insurance for the temporary employees furnished to her clients. Ms. Kane’s agency, under its various names, was also responsible for paying the employees their wages, paying state and federal employment taxes and processing payroll deductions for withholding taxes, Social Security obligations and any health care benefits. She used “Expert Staffing” from 2010 to 2013 “Affordable Staffing” in 2013, and “M&K Temp, Inc.” from 2014 to 2015.Ĭonsistent with legitimate temporary employment agencies, Ms. Kane’s agency handled the administrative and accounting tasks associated with the hiring and employment process of the workers she supplied while her client companies would direct the workers assigned to them in their day to day work. Kane changed her company’s operating names. Ms Kane operated her temporary employment staffing agency under the names “Expert Staffing”, “Affordable Staffing”, and “M&K Temp., Inc.” The agency operating under these various names provided temporary workers to agricultural businesses in Massachusetts but from 2010 through 2014, it primarily provided temporary labor to Plantation Products, an international seed company headquartered in Norton, Massachusetts, that produces over 150 million seed packets annually. Three Different Names used for the same business The 23 counts she pleaded guilty to included five counts of mail fraud involving workers’ compensation insurance where Ms. Kane defrauded insurers of $165,000.00 in premiums and additionally failing to report and pay over to the IRS almost $1.3 million in withholding and other taxes due from her companies for the temporary workers she provided to Massachusetts agricultural companies. Woodlock and waived indictment and pleaded guilty to 23 counts of insurance fraud and tax evasion.
Souleang Kane, 48, of Swansea, appeared before Judge Douglas P. On October 2, 2017, the owner of a temporary employment agency that operated under at least three different names pleaded guilty to 23 counts of insurance fraud and tax evasion in the United States District Court.