A Chula Vista woman previously convicted of embezzling from her employer and then faking a cancer diagnosis to avoid going to prison was sentenced Thursday to more than two years in prison for falsely representing to a prospective employer that she’d been exonerated in her criminal case.
Ashleigh Lynn Chavez had been 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 due to her supposed cancer diagnosis.
After her release from custody, she submitted a forged letter — supposedly written by her defense attorney — in a job application that fraudulently claimed she’d been exonerated in the criminal case and prosecutors dismissed all charges against her…