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| | Fraud Fermentation Ripe for Prosecution
By Robert Warne - February 3, 2003The Los Angeles and Sacramento District Attorneys’ offices have two new fraud trophies to hang on their walls.
Ana Rosa Pena managed to slip an anxiety claim through on adjusters July 1, 1998 after her employer, Los Angeles County, received a bomb threat. But while on disability she went beyond just buying a bottle of booze to take the edge off her nerves, she purchased and ran a liquor store.
Digging deeper into the claim, the California Department of Insurance’s (CDI) Fraud Division discovered that Pena made material representations and had submitted fraudulent documents. And at her side to help her through the claim was her husband Juan Castillon Pena, who is named as a co-conspirator and facing felony charges as well.
With bail set at $100,000 each, there will be no way for them to get out unless they can prove their bail money has no ties to criminal activity.
In Sacramento Kenneth Michael Stockton is having trouble keeping his story straight.
While working for Trans-Box Systems Stockton knocked his back out of whack and filed a claim Jan 28, 1993. Two years later he settled his claim including future medical treatment.
His last back treatment was in 1999 and he went two years before he reopened his future medical claim. At that time he stated that he hadn’t suffered any subsequent back injuries since 1993.
But Stockton’s back was against the wall after CDI investigators found that he filed a work comp claim Jan. 30, 2000 while employed by Smart and Final. They also found out that he made material representations related to his original claim and his latest claim.
If Stockton had been smart and made his original claim final he wouldn’t be facing any jail time, fines and need $10,000 for bail right now. |
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