San Diego-area Councilman Gets Delay in Comp Fraud Case

A Vista, Calif., city council member being prosecuted for failure to provide workers' compensation insurance for employees at his restaurant has a new date for his pre-trial hearing.Frank Lopez and his wife, Mary, were charged in June with a misdemeanor for not providing workers' comp coverage for employees at their Casa Linda Mexican restaurant from Nov. 28, 2000, to Jan. 8, 2010.A pre-trial conference scheduled Sept. 2 was postponed when the couple's attorney Ward Clay told the court he "had some loose ends I'm going to have to tie up, (so) I'm not prepared to go forward,...