Kelly J. Smith pleaded guilty in Ontario Court on Wednesday to three counts of fraud over $5,000. A pre-sentence report was ordered. From April 2009 to March 2010, Smith worked as an office administrator at Greenfield Family Dentistry in Simcoe, where she opened and closed the business, billed insurance companies for services via electronic submissions,…
GUELPH — Problem gambler Sharon Keleher was sentenced to nine months of house arrest in provincial court Wednesday for defrauding 11 insurance companies of more than $45,100 in total through a local dental office, another innocent victim, where she worked. The Guelphite entered a guilty plea Wednesday afternoon. Justice David Carr said the fact the…
(Photo: Contributed photo) PORT ORCHARD — A woman sentenced Jan. 23 to six years in prison for stealing $1.1 million from her Kingston employer was accused of living the lifestyle of a reality TV star at the expense of the trust her bosses placed in her to keep the books. The massive theft perpetrated by Tracy…
FORT MADISON — Danylle Lei Weiler of Chariton was sentenced to 10 years at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville, instead of the probation she requested. Weiler, 48, was charged with theft last year for embezzling money from Fort Madison’s Courtney Chiropractic Center, 1219 Avenue H, in Fort Madison. Weiler’s sentencing Friday was for…
Jamie Lynn Entrekin, 43, who worked for Surgical Specialists of Ocala, was arrested Tuesday and charged with organized fraud. By Austin L. MillerStaff writer A former doctor’s office manager is suspected of taking more than $280,000 from the business to pay her credit card bills. Jamie Lynn Entrekin, 43, who worked for Surgical Specialists of…
This is a conversation with a dentist regarding the handling of insurance checks. Dentist: My staff cannot access insurance checks that are mailed to my office. Me: How do you accomplish that? Dentist: I have a lockbox that only I can access. On my way to work each day, I pick up the mail from…
Police confirm a Weaverville woman wanted on nine felony warrants related to the embezzlement of over $200,000 has been found dead. (Photo provided by: Asheville Police Department) ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Police confirm a Weaverville woman wanted on nine felony warrants related to the embezzlement of over $200,000 has been found dead. Thursday, police put…
Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Carrie Caporino, 45, of Scarborough, Maine, was arrested on Tuesday and charged in U.S. District Court by criminal complaint with embezzling from a health care benefit program. According to court records, from December 2015 to June 2017, Caporino was employed as the office manager…
NORTON —A Mansfield woman charged last year with stealing an estimated $100,000 from a local dental office is now being prosecuted in superior court. Ann-Margaret Baldwin, 44, of 56 Benefit St., in Mansfield, pleaded innocent earlier this month in Fall River Superior Court to a six-count indictment charging her with larceny of more than $250…
A TOOWOOMBA bookkeeper transferred $60,000 from a client’s account into his own for personal use, police will allege. The Chronicle understands a Toowoomba-based dental surgery reported the missing funds to police after being notified of owed taxes by the Australian Tax Office. The man, who oversaw the dental practice’s daily financial transactions, was last week…