Crime & Safety
VA Employee Convicted of Making Up Lies about Client Coming to Kill Her
More than 4,000 text messages seal case against social worker who allegedly made unwanted sexual advances toward her client.
PORTLAND, OR — A licensed clinical social worker who tried unsuccessfully to entice a veteran into a sexual relationship, plying him with booze, turned on the man who spurned her advances and claimed he was planning to kill her.
Ami Diane Phillips, 45, worked at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Southwest Portland and the veteran was her client. This week, she was convicted of two misdemeanors for making up a story that one of her male clients was on his way to her office to kill her.
She sent more than 4,000 text messages to the veteran, evidence which sealed her fate.
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