Former UPS Worker Sentenced After Coaching Soccer In Workers' Comp Scam: NYSIG

WEST ISLIP, NY — A former United Parcel Service worker from Long Island was sentenced on Tuesday for Workers’ Compensation fraud, according to New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang.

Nicholas Gallagher, a former UPS overnight supervisor, was sentenced in Suffolk County First District Court to a conditional discharge with community service and ordered to pay full restitution of more than $13,000 after working off the books as a high school soccer coach in West Islip, Lang said.

According to the investigation, Gallagher worked as a boys’ varsity soccer coach at St. John the Baptist High School in West Islip and as a sales representative for Lacrosse Unlimited while collecting $13,402.87 in workers’ compensation benefits.

Land said Gallagher claimed a back injury from a workplace fall in March 2021 and subsequently informed doctors and the Workers’ Compensation Board on numerous occasions that he was not working as a result.

Surveillance video and subpoenaed bank records revealed a different story, proving that Gallagher earned more than $37,000 in unreported income during the same period from his two other jobs, including from coaching duties caught on video, Lang said.