Former Prison Officer Owes CalPERS $244,400 for Workers' Comp Fraud

A former Folsom State Prison correctional officer who was sentenced to prison a year and a half ago for insurance fraud has now also been ordered to pay $244,400 in restitution to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced.

June Ann Lucena, 46, was sentenced in August 2008 to seven years in state prison on a variety of insurance fraud-related charges.

After suffering an injury at work, Lucena received workers’ compensation benefits. She also filed for disability retirement with CalPERS. After she recovered, she continued to claim she was severely restricted in her physical activities, a news release said. But surveillance videos showed her riding a jet ski and going down water slides with ease.

The $244,400 restitution is the amount of money Lucena fraudulently obtained from CalPERS, including interest, the release said.

Posted on Monday, February 1, 2010 by Kelly Johnson, Sacramento Business Journal

1 comment (Add your own)

1. Julie wrote:
How is this going to be paid...and while she is in prison what is the estimate it will cost to keep her (prison lingo) 3 hots and a cot? Don't get me wrong that is where she deserves to be... she is the worst kind of criminal...the one that take away public confidence in programs that are meant to help people in need! The Shame the Shame!

February 26, 2010 @ 8:11 PM

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