Restaurant Owner and Manager Charged With Fraud

Editor's note: All criminal charges announced by the Insurance Department were dismissed for insufficient evidence. An owner and a manager at a restaurant in East Austin were both indicted for their roles in an alleged scheme to defraud a workers’ compensation carrier out of $350,000, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. Allison Clem, manager of la Barbecue, and her wife, LeAnn Mueller, who owns the food truck and restaurant, were both ordered to appear in Travis County District Court on Sept. 28. The department said Clem and Mueller learned that a worker suffered se...