FALSIFIED RECORDS IN ORDER TO GENERATE PAYMENTS TO FICTITIOUS WORKERS
According to an indictment that was issued in mid-October, a Chicago nursing home employee was charged with seven counts of wire fraud.
AR (44) defrauded her employer by creating fictitious records of individuals that supposedly worked at the facility. These “ghost” employees were paid for “false hours,” and some of these individuals supposedly cashed the checks and shared the monies with AR. On other occasions, AR would forge the signatures on checks and then deposited the proceeds into her own account.
She reportedly was able to scam some $100,000 in that manner.
In a written statement, Principal Deputy Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, noted that “These charges reflect the department’s commitment to hold criminals accountable for their wrongdoing …. We thank the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General for their tireless efforts in investigating this case.”
Will this ghost scam haunt that poor lady?
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