It’s getting close to tax-time and I recently answered a call from a 1-800 number. It was a robocaller. A recorded voice (in well spoken English) identified themselves as a high ranking government official. The “official” warned me that the tax department just issued a warrant and the sheriff was on his way to arrest me…
KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho – The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is currently looking for a wanted fugitive involved with several recent thefts. According to the Sheriff’s Office, they first got a complaint from a local resident back in September that her credit card number had been fraudulently used in several places around the county. Detectives identified…
It’s a fact, fraud sucks! Widely published statistics show that 3 out of 5 dentists have been a victim of employee dishonesty during their career. In fact, embezzlement is so widespread in the profession that virtually every dentist will know at least one other dentist who was stolen from. What is less widely known is…
Does this sound familiar? The doctor “trusted her completely” and had gone without pay himself believing his practice was strapped for cash. He told police she was “his office manager and best friend” and allowed her “total control” Mar 2018 – Melbourne Florida. A woman was sentenced to five years of prison Thursday for defrauding…
Clay County FL (Aug 2018) A Clay County woman, a former bookkeeper for a chiropractor’s office, is accused of embezzling more than $250,000 from the business. An arrest report says that Melinda Dawn Wilkes used the money to fund her own two businesses — as well as “pay for extracurricular activities for her kids.” Investigators…
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A Madison, Indiana woman who worked for an orthodontist has been arrested on suspicion that she stole about $300,000 from her employer. Indiana State Police arrested Malinda A. Downey, 47, Wednesday on a Level 5 felony charge of theft. She was taken to Jefferson County Jail and released on bonded. Downey worked at Pawlak Orthodontics…
December 25th 2019 – A former South Ogden dental office manager is facing 28 felony charges after she allegedly used $96,000 of company money to pay for her personal expenses, including food, rent, cellphone bills and Netflix. Nikki Lee Martinez, 40, was booked into the Weber County Jail Thursday on 25 counts of forgery, third-degree…
Dental practices have the right to monitor employee computer use. You must balance the employee’s right to privacy with the employer’s right to monitor workplace computer systems. Bill Hiltz Digital monitoring software can reveal who is doing what on a computer. Generally speaking digital monitoring looks at “what is happening“, while digital forensics looks at…
Sept 25, 2019 – ALBANY – A former nun, who nearly 30 years ago was found to have defrauded a group of anesthesiologists, is being accused of draining nearly $1 million from an Albany dentist’s bank accounts. Dr. James McMahon Jr., who operates McMahon Family Dentistry and J. McMahon Properties, LLC, filed the civil lawsuit…