Chula Vista woman previously convicted of fraud pleads guilty in new case

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A Chula Vista woman previously convicted of embezzling from her employer and then faking a cancer diagnosis to avoid going to prison pleaded guilty today to new fraud charges for falsely representing to a prospective employer that she’d been exonerated in her criminal case.

Ashleigh Lynn Chavez, 42, was sentenced to prison for taking over

$160,000 from a former employer, then later submitting forged doctor’s letters to a judge that recommended she serve time in home confinement rather than prison…

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