STOCKTON -- Former Tracy police Officer Jenny Moore pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges of workers' compensation and insurance fraud in San Joaquin County Superior Court, stemming from a March 2003 on-duty injury she said forced her into long-term disability.
"I can't believe it's come to this. I'm as grieved and hurt as I possibly could be," Moore, a former president of the Tracy Police Officers Association, said moments before her plea. "It's beyond words to describe the depth of sorrow I have for the department I love and the city I grew up in ... that it has gone to this level."
Moore, a former athlete who was diagnosed with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, said she suffered a lower-back injury in January 2002 when she jumped on a suspect while in pursuit. She re-injured the area more than a year later while restraining a suspect.
According to her lawyer, Lawrence Bohm of Sacramento, a magnetic resonance imaging screen, performed after the second incident, showed degeneration in three lumbar vertebrae. Moore underwent disc-replacement surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, on Oct. 12, 2004.
"They believe Jenny is lying about the extent of her pain. They're claiming she allowed doctors to cut a 6-inch gash in her abdomen and insert metal disks in her spine for financial gain," Bohm said.
Deputy District Attorney Eual Blansett Jr. filed the charges Jan. 21, although an arrest warrant wasn't issued.
Blansett said 11 of the 12 counts Moore faces stem from withholding information or making false statements to her physicians, Dr. Anh Lee and Dr. Randall Armstrong.
"It doesn't make a difference if you tell one doctor the truth; you're supposed to tell everyone the truth all the way through the process," Blansett said.
In August, Moore filed a civil complaint against the city of Tracy for defamation, fraud, disability harassment and violating the Police Officer Procedural Bill of Rights. In a letter dated July 29, Bohm wrote then-City Manager Fred Diaz that Moore was unfairly placed on unpaid administrative leave and had her workers' compensation benefits terminated
About the same time, Bohm wrote, the city stopped paying her insurance premiums and launched an internal investigation into Moore's conduct after the second back injury.
Moore's civil complaint was rejected by the City Council in December.
"It is interesting to note that no charges were filed until we pursued the civil case against the city of Tracy," Bohm said.
Tracy City Attorney Debra Corbett said she couldn't comment on the criminal charges against Moore because it's a county issue.
http://www.recordnet.com/article/20050224/a_news/302249968
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Eggs-Vs-Bacon ago
But that's not the whole story. The judge dropped the charges. Then she sued the DA. Not sure of the outcome tho. http://www.recordnet.com/article/20051111/NEWS0101/511110328
Former Tracy police Officer Jenny Moore filed a tort claim with San Joaquin County on Thursday against Deputy District Attorney Eual Blansett Jr. in his attempt to prosecute Moore for workers’ compensation and insurance fraud....The charges against Moore were dismissed in June, and Superior Court Judge Peter Saiers declared her “factually innocent” of illegally attempting to collect workers’ compensation insurance payments after two lower-back injuries she suffered in the line of duty.
Camera_Eye ago
That would be a good motivator to fully taint ones perspective on the supposedly ‘good guys’ and launch a mission and use her skills to go after corruption. The fact that she went to ICE div to include DHS (as being claimed) a few weeks back, and got no help makes you wonder if the good guys are in control. There’s a cancer that needs to be nuked.
Eggs-Vs-Bacon ago
I agree, she would have an insiders perspective on different levels of LE and how they protect their own, sometimes pander to elite interests etc. I haven't had a chance to look into her friend Robyn Gritz - FBI agent fired by McCabe. I bet there's more to this angle of the story in that direction.
Factfinder2 ago
https://www.npr.org/2015/04/15/399853577/former-fbi-agent-speaks-out-i-was-not-protected
"Gritz says the FBI drummed her out of a job. All because of allegations about fraud on her time card that she says just didn't happen. The FBI also blamed her for not attending a 7:15 a.m. meeting and sending an unprofessional email to an ex-boyfriend."
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"After a decade of 24/7 work fighting terrorism, things got rough in her personal life — a hostile divorce caused in part by her work. And then, after she'd gone to work on detail to the CIA, her FBI supervisors started asking about her hours."
Eggs-Vs-Bacon ago
Sounds like a snow job to get rid of her, and if we need to guess her area of interest (we don't, she became close friends with Jem after all) we can see why. Thanks for the research.