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Anna Ayala (born December 22, 1965) is an American woman who brought a fraudulent tort lawsuit against a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, California. Ayala’s claims cost the chain more than US $21 million in lost revenue. This led to a felony charge of attempted grand larceny against her, to which Ayala pleaded guilty in September 2005. She was sentenced to nine years in prison on January 18, 2006 and served four years. In 2013, she received another prison sentence for an unrelated incident regarding filing a false police report and felony firearm possession.