BofA Fake-Bomb Banker Charged With Insurance Fraud
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A woman convicted of taking part in a 2012 bank robbery in East Los Angeles faces further charges of filing a fake workers’ compensation claim after saying the incident left her with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Aurora Barrera, 33, of Downey, California, helped plan the theft at a Bank of America Corp. branch where she was an assistant manager, the California Department of Insurance said yesterday in a statement. She was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for the crime this week and charged with insurance fraud after collecting $45,537 in disability benefits and medical expenses tied to the incident.