Former Westminster police officer Nicole Brown charged with stealing thousands in workers' comp, faking California disability
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WESTMINSTER, Calif. — A former police officer from California has been accused of feigning disability, yet she was spotted dancing and drinking at a music festival, skiing, and even participating in a 5K run.

Nicole Brown is facing the possibility of significant prison time for allegedly obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent workers’ compensation claims, after asserting to her department that she couldn’t work due to a duty-related injury she claimed to have incurred in March 2022.

She’s accused of collecting more than $600,000 tax-free, including all medical bills while working with the Westminster Police Department.

“It’s absolutely appalling for a police officer to act in such a manner,” stated Kimberly Edds, the public information officer for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

“She suffered a small abrasion to her head. She went to the emergency room that day,” Edds said. “The doctor cleared her without any restrictions on duty. She took a couple days off after that, and then told her department that she had been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury by a doctor who put her on temporary disability.”

The DA’s office launched an investigation after Brown was caught dancing and drinking at the Stagecoach country music festival.

“People who knew that she was on full disability witnessed her behaving in a way that was not consistent with what she was telling her department,” Edds said. “She was engaged in an incredibly active lifestyle where she was running, skiing, going to Disneyland, doing all these things that she said she could not do while she was working as a police officer.”

Brown’s stepfather, Peter Gregory Schuman — a licensed attorney practicing workers’ compensation defense for insurance carriers — is charged with helping his stepdaughter orchestrate the fraud.

“He was representing her at some of the meetings with the department and her case manager, where he was describing what she was prohibited from doing. She was acting like she couldn’t look at a screen. She was in a dark room. Meanwhile, she was pursuing a master’s in organizational leadership, where it was completely online,” she said.

Brown is now charged with 15 felonies, including making a fraudulent statement to obtain compensation and making fraudulent insurance benefit claims.

Her stepfather is also charged with conspiring and soliciting someone in an unlawful act.

If convicted, Schuman faces up to eight years behind bars. For Brown, if she’s found guilty, she faces up to 22 years in prison.

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