Local News in Brief : Jail for Fired Travel Agent
A former Los Angeles travel agency employee who erased the bookings of 134 travelers from the company computer after being fired was sentenced Monday to 30 days in County Jail and fined $3,375.
Louisa Jin-Yin Wang, 34, of Walnut, was also sentenced to three years’ probation by Los Angeles Municipal Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis.
Wang was convicted March 14 of violating a state Penal Code section that makes computer tampering a misdemeanor.
City Atty. James K. Hahn said the 1986 tampering was “an act of revenge” that left some of the C.L. Thompson Express International agency’s clients stranded overseas and cost the agency $7,854 to restore the computer records and reimburse clients.
Wang was fired from the downtown agency for taking an unauthorized day off. Five days later, she returned to the office, located in the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel, and spent about two hours deleting the bookings from the computer, prosecutors said.
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