CAMARILLO : 4 Years Given for Forgery, Tax Evasion
A 48-year-old Camarillo woman was sentenced Monday to four years in state prison for forging office checks addressed to her former employer and filing a false income-tax return.
Shirley Ann Jenkins listened impassively to the sentence imposed by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Frederick A. Jones. Jenkins had pleaded guilty to five counts of forgery for checks amounting to $1,200 and one count of tax evasion. Before imposing the sentence, Jones said Jenkins’ conduct was “criminally sophisticated, well-planned, and premeditated.”
In a related civil suit earlier this month, Jenkins was ordered to pay $162,978 in actual damages and another $500,000 in punitive damages for defrauding her former employer, Dr. Louis Barbara. Barbara, an Oxnard physician, had claimed that Jenkins and her daughter, Barbara Ann, embezzled more than $100,000 from his office over a seven-year period.
Jenkins will be eligible for parole in two years, Deputy Dist. Atty. Charles R. Roberts Sr. said.
Jenkins also was ordered by the court to pay $10,000 in restitution to Louis Barbara and remains liable for the civil judgment, Roberts said.
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