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Anna Ayala (born c. 1965) is an American woman who is infamous for bringing a fraudulent tort lawsuit against a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, California, which Wendy's claims inflicted more than US$2.5 million in lost revenue for the corporation. This has led to a felony charge of attempted grand larceny against her. Ayala pleaded guilty to the charge in September 2005, and was sentenced to nine years in prison on January 18, 2006, ultimately serving four of the nine years. In 2013, she was sentenced to prison for an unrelated incident regarding filing a false police report and felony firearm possession. ==Legal history== According to ''The New York Times'', Ayala has a history of lawsuits, filing at least 13 different civil actions in California and Nevada which involved her or her children, some of which involved out-of-court cash settlements. In 1998, Ayala brought a lawsuit against San Jose-based ''La Oferta Review Newspaper'' for sexual harassment. The case was later dropped. In 2000, she lost a suit against a San Jose car dealership, General Motors Corp., and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, claiming that a wheel fell off her car. The suit was dismissed "with prejudice" (meaning it cannot be refiled) after she fired her attorney and failed to show up in court or submit paperwork. In 2004, Ayala claimed she had won a suit against fast-food restaurant chain El Pollo Loco in which she was awarded US$30,000 in damages for medical expenses after her daughter Genesis contracted salmonella poisoning from eating at one of their Las Vegas-area restaurants. In mid-April 2004, El Pollo Loco spokeswoman Julie Weeks disputed this, saying that the company reviewed her claim and paid her nothing. In 2013, Ayala made international headlines again after being sentenced to two years in prison for being an accessory to a felony, filing a false police report and being a felon in possession of a firearm. In October the previous year, her son, Guadalupe Reyes, accidentally shot himself in the ankle. Reyes was not allowed to have the gun because he was on parole. Ayala filed a false police report, telling officers that her son had been shot in the ankle by two men. According to police, Guadalupe Reyes eventually cracked during questioning and admitted that he shot himself, leading to the arrests of Ayala and Reyes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Ayala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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