By Bee Staff
An ex-guard at Folsom Prison has been ordered to repay $170,000 more over a bogus disability claim.
June Ann Lucena, who was convicted of disability fraud, has been ordered to pay more another $170,000 in restitution on top of a previous $244,000 restitution payment, according to Sacramento District Attorney Jan Scully.
This follows a court order in December to repay $244,400 to CalPERS in December 2009, Scully's office said.
Lucena's problems began in 1999, when she suffered a work-related injury after a fall. She had surgery in the summer of 2000 and began receiving workers' compensation benefits.
Lucena also filed for disability retirement with CalPERS, claiming she was "severely restricted in her physical activities," according to previous Bee reports.
Despite those claims, private investigators filmed her in the summer of 2002 "repeatedly going down the water slides" at the Oakwood Lake Water Park in Manteca, Scully's office said in December.
"The very next day she was seen at Folsom Lake riding a Jet Ski at various times throughout the day, in choppy waters, and at high rates of speed," Scully's office said.
She later denied under oath that she had been on the watercraft, saying, "I don't know what that would do to my back," according to the District Attorney's Office.
Lucena went to trial and Deputy District Attorney Debbie Glynn won convictions on 14 counts against her in December 2007, Scully said. Lucena also received a 7-year prison sentence (an earlier version of this story omitted this detail).
About Comments
Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "report abuse" button below it. We will delete comments containing inappropriate links, obscenities, hate speech, and personal attacks. Flagrant or repeat violators will be banned. See more about comments here.