Posted on 07/14/2025 6:40:55 AM PDT by Angelino97
A California ex-cop who allegedly partied and took Disney trips while collecting hefty disability checks is being sued for the $600,000 she ripped off from the city.
Nicole Brown, 39, was charged with 15 felonies in May after authorities found she was faking a disability for an extensive leave from the Westminster Police Department, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
Westminster officials ... said they are seeking 'repayment of all disability and medical payments, benefits, and other funds unlawfully obtained by Brown.'
'This former police officer has betrayed the public trust,' Mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen said in a statement.
'We owe it to our residents and to the honest, hard-working officers in our police department to seek to recover these funds.'
In March 2022, Brown hurt her forehead while handcuffing a suspect. She called off sick for days and claimed she was diagnosed with severe concussion syndrome from the incident.
Her diagnosis meant she was suffering from headaches, dizziness, light and noise sensitivity, and cognitive issues.
But prosecutors allegedly found the only injury she sustained was a cut - and the emergency room cleared her to return to work the same day.
They said that with the help of her stepfather Peter Gregory Schuman, a workers' compensation attorney, she fraudulently collected benefits and made baseless insurance benefit claims.
Her disability benefits included her full salary, which was tax-free, and all of her medical expenses, according to the DA's office.
Brown's story started unfolding when she was spotted drinking and dancing at the Stagecoach Music Festival in April 2023.
More than 750,000 people attended the rowdy event at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
With music blaring and temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, it was likely one of the last places someone with a concussion would find themselves.
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California will approve 100% disability for a paper cut and the number of completely able bodied people riding the system on 100% disability is staggering.
A number of years ago, a popular California mini marathon fun run had a plurality of the top 20 runners on 100% disability.
A local guy on disability hurt himself recently falling out of a tree stand. Disability can be a raquet. A family member was on it for Asthma before Social Security kicked in. They smoke weed constantly. I guess SS cured their asthma.
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I doubt that she could. She’ll probably file for bankruptcy.
Several years back a Seattle Fire Fighter had a serious accident on the job. He was called in to cover a shift at a different station than his normal company and the station had the old school fireman’s pole. He got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and fell through hole where the pole was located.
He sued the city, which of course drew out the legal proceeding for years. The city had hired PI’s to follow him and take pictures.
This backfired on the city in a spectacular manner. The presented their pictures of him walking around his farm and doing farm chores.
His defense was basically he wasn’t going to sit on his ass all day, and it didn’t depict the pain he was in while doing those things or the fact that he could only do them for brief period of time.
The jury awarded him $10 million
A friend of ours is legitimately disabled from a car wreck in which she was not at fault.
She has a big steel plate holding her back together.
She occasionally has fun losing the investigator following her in the car.
It’s good that they do that to catch cheaters. But it might as well be fun.
Over 50% of these kind of disability claims by the police and firefighters are totally bogus.
Well he didn’t deserve any of that. This is another reason why so-called” public servants are a problem.
So, did she have a good time?
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