"The second-highest paid Los Angeles County employee made nearly $790,000 last year, but he didn’t show up to work a single day, newly released salary data show.
Dr. Gail V. Anderson Jr., the former chief medical officer of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, was paid $787,250.91 in pay and benefits in 2014, according to the salary data from L.A. County.
His pay included salary and benefits from portions of 2012, all of 2013 and about half of 2014 as part of a settlement Anderson reached with the county as a result of his termination in 2012, according to a county spokesman.Anderson was fired in July 2012.
He challenged the termination to the Civil Service Commission and filed a defamation lawsuit against the county.
In settlement over the litigation, Anderson received back pay and was offered his old job back as head of the hospital in an unincorporated area of the county near Torrance.
Almost immediately after he was reinstated, he decided to retire, according to county spokesman Joel Sappell.
Anderson did not return to work at the hospital.
In August 2011, Anderson was placed on paid administrative leave and escorted out of the hospital amid an investigation, according to news reports.
He was fired about a year later.
While Anderson was on administrative leave for about 11 months in 2011 and 2012, he was required to stay at home during work hours."
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