EVERETT — The co-owner of a former Mill Creek housecleaning business pleaded guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court for her involvement in a scheme to avoid paying workers compensation insurance, and was ordered to pay nearly $12,000 to the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries.
Monica Ann Covey-Standley , 40, pleaded guilty to third-degree theft of wages and attempted false reporting of workers compensation information, both gross misdemeanors.
She’s been ordered to pay $11,743. That’s the amount she and her former husband, Blake J. Standley, failed to pay for employees of their business, Kogaty Interiors.
Standley filed reports claiming the business had no employees, according to charging papers. Investigators uncovered company records that revealed otherwise.
The state Attorney General’s Office, which prosecuted the case, also required the defendants to pay one of their workers $1,030, for wages that were improperly withheld.
Covey-Standley was ordered to serve 15 days of community service and two years probation.
Standley, 40, of Bothell, previously pleaded guilty to the same charges as his ex-wife, and received a similar sentence.
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