{"id":312186,"date":"2010-02-12T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f80\/city-employee-convicted-workers-compensation-fraud-39362\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:26:04","slug":"city-employee-convicted-for-workers%c2%92-compensation-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/312186","title":{"rendered":"City Employee Convicted for Workers\u0092 Compensation Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.12.10 08:46 AM<br \/>\n<b><i>Los Angeles:<\/i><\/b>&#0160;On Feb. 8, 2010, former City of Los Angeles employee, 51-year-old OlgaZavala-Edwards, was convicted of workers\u0092 compensation and insurancefraud related to charges of filing a false claim for compensation.&#0160;Zavala-Edwards, who was a 24-year employee of the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment (LAPD), was a civilian assigned to the Department\u0092s JailDivision as a supervisory detention officer.&#0160; She was discharged fromher job on August 3, 2009. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>LAPD investigators from the Workers\u0092 Compensation Fraud CoordinationUnit, Special Operations Division, began investigating Zavala-Edwardsworkers\u0092 compensation claim involving an alleged industrial\/on-the-jobinjury shortly after the claim was submitted.&#0160; The investigationcentered on how the alleged Nov. 2, 2008, injury occurred, the actuallocation where Zavala-Edwards claimed she was injured and whatinformation she had given to her treating physicians.&#0160; Theinvestigation was conducted in partnership with the Los Angeles CountyDistrict Attorney\u0092s Healthcare Fraud Division, Workers\u0092 CompensationDivision of the City\u0092s Personnel Department and the Los Angeles CityAttorney\u0092s Office. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that Zavala-Edwards did not tell the LAPD,her doctors or investigators with the City Attorney\u0092s Office that herinjury actually occurred at her home before she reported to work onNov. 2. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the criminal conviction for workers\u0092 compensation fraud, thecourt ordered Zavala-Edwards to pay full restitution to the City of LosAngeles in the amount of $7,654.71 for all salary and medical benefitsthe City paid as part of her fraudulent claim.&#0160; In addition,Zavala-Edwards was sentenced to 100 hours of community service andplaced on two years of summary probation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapdblog.typepad.com\/lapd_blog\/2010\/02\/city-employee-convicted-for-workers-compensation-fraud.html\" >LAPD News and Information &#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.12.10 08:46 AM Los Angeles:&#0160;On Feb. 8, 2010, former City of Los Angeles employee, 51-year-old OlgaZavala-Edwards, was convicted of workers\u0092 compensation and insurancefraud related to charges of filing a false claim for compensation.&#0160;Zavala-Edwards, who was a 24-year employee of the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment (LAPD), was a civilian assigned to the Department\u0092s JailDivision as a supervisory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}