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For almost a year California’s employment-disability agency paid wealthy physician Gershon Hepner of Century City $266 a month on his stress claim. The district attorney believes Hepner’s “stress” was brought on by the fraud, grand theft, and tax evasion he’s been charged with. Hepner pleaded guilty to all of them and is awaiting sentencing. State law entitled Hepner to the money because another physician certified that the stress was “job related.”
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In May Rod Shealy, a Republican political consultant in South Carolina, was found guilty of violating state campaign laws after he hired an unemployed black fisherman to run for lieutenant governor in 1990 against Shealy’s sister. Shealy admitted he did it to scare white voters into going to the polls to vote for his sister.
Patrick Tracy, 28, was sentenced in July to ten months in jail in Stuart, Florida, for indecent exposure. Betty Napier had accused him of peering in her window and masturbating almost daily for the last five years. She had called the police 30 times, but they were never able to catch Tracy in the act. She finally set up a video camera and provided the evidence herself.
