During a recession, obtaining a job becomes more difficult, and finding extra money to get by on can be a real challenge. For Armando Jaramillo Landa, however, the times were good, at least until he was caught.
Armando De Anda was hired for a position at Teppan Steak House in December 2007. He continued to work at the Oxnard, Calif. steak house through August 2008. De Anda's employment was nothing out of the ordinary; it would not have raised any red flags, except that De Anda did not technically exist.
De Anda was a pseudonym, which Armando Landa used along with a fake social security number to get a job while he was collecting disability payments. The disability was being collected because of an injury he sustained while working at Chicago for Ribs in Ventura, Calif. Landa's doctor put him on total temporary disability, allowing him to collect more than $30,000 in disability payments from May, 2007 to August, 2008.
CDI investigators found that while he was collecting these payments, Landa created his fake identity (De Anda), which he used to obtain his position in Oxnard. On July 13, he reported not to the steak house in Oxnard, but to the police station, where he was arrested on a charge of felony insurance fraud. With Ventura County District Attorney's Office prosecuting his case, chances are Landa will be regretting making that claim till the cows come home.
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