Clinic Workers Charged With Fabricating Phony Accident

Three former employees of a now-defunct Essex Street chiropractic clinic that was once the top moneymaker in the state are among nine people charged with fabricating a three-car crash nearly five years ago.

Janet Jimenez, who worked several years as a doctor's assistant at Lawrence Back and Neck, has admitted to police that the diagram she faxed her insurance agent from the clinic's office shortly before 3 a.m. on Nov. 8, 2002, was a scam to make money, police said.