Prosecutors, defense battle over insurance charge as Flores trial heats up

The second day of testimony in the trial of Stockton Unified School District board member AngelAnn Flores began Wednesday morning with the prosecution’s first witness: Andrew White, a special investigator for Sentry Insurance. His testimony focused on the insurance fraud charge tied to a 2022 minor car accident involving Flores.

The fraud charge is one of three felony counts the second-term school board member faces after a grand jury indicted her in January. Flores is also fighting two embezzlement charges for allegedly making personal purchases worth several hundred dollars on a school district credit card.

But while the initial search of Flores’ home in 2023 — and the announcements of her arrest and initial charging in spring 2024 — focused largely on her credit card use, the credit card claims haven’t been the main focus of Flores’ trial so far…

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