A former office manager has been convicted of fraud after stealing funds from four different patients at the nursing home facility where she worked. The nursing home employee forged the administrators name and signed checks made out to her own name or to cash. The theft was found through an audit of the accounting books.
The employee tried to cover the fraudulent checks by putting reimbursement items in the memo lines, such as wheelchair repairs. However, the repairs had already been purchased by the facility, not by the employee. For more, read the story.