County worker gets prison time
An Orange County contract employee was sentenced to five years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $316,000 in restitution Wednesday for defrauding the county by writing bogus checks using taxpayer funds.
Elizabeth Gonzalez, 32, of Moreno Valley was an employee of Arbor Education and Training, an independent company contracted by the Orange County Social Services Agency, when the fraud occurred between 2005 and 2007.
She was convicted of collecting rent money from people on welfare and pocketing it rather than using it to pay their landlords. Prosecutors said Gonzales paid the landlords with the fraudulent taxpayer checks. They said she stole more than $300,000.
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