SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / A news summary : The Local Review / DEVELOPMENTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY : County Worker Jailed for Calls to Psychics
A woman accused of making up to $120,000 in calls to psychic hotlines on county telephone lines was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in county jail and five years of probation.
Cheryl Burnham, 39, who worked for the Mental Health Department, was also ordered to pay $97,972 in restitution to the county.
Burnham pleaded guilty to making 2,500 calls to various psychic hotlines between June 1997 and November 1998. The calls were discovered during a routine audit of the county phone system and traced to Burnham’s work area in McClaren Hall, a children’s crisis center in El Monte.
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