The state has returned donated money amounting to more than $27,000 that had been taken out of Jasper County wards’ accounts by Rita Hunter, former public administrator.
Gretchen Long, attorney for Angie Casavecchia, the new public administrator: “There is more coming.”
The office is working on the return of about $85,000 that was taken from wards’ accounts and sent to state health-care agencies in the last weeks of Hunter’s tenure at the end of last year.
Hunter also is the subject of an investigation that was launched after it was learned that all the wards’ records had been taken from the public administrator’s files, and that computer files on the wards had been erased before Casavecchia took over on Jan. 1. Hunter later returned about 30 boxes of files, and additional materials were taken from her house as a result of a search warrant.
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Some county wards’ money returned by state agencies
See also:
Probate Judge Orders Return of Money
Hunter Removed Client Files
Class Action Filed
Gretchen Long, attorney for Angie Casavecchia, the new public administrator: “There is more coming.”
The office is working on the return of about $85,000 that was taken from wards’ accounts and sent to state health-care agencies in the last weeks of Hunter’s tenure at the end of last year.
Hunter also is the subject of an investigation that was launched after it was learned that all the wards’ records had been taken from the public administrator’s files, and that computer files on the wards had been erased before Casavecchia took over on Jan. 1. Hunter later returned about 30 boxes of files, and additional materials were taken from her house as a result of a search warrant.
Full Article and Source:
Some county wards’ money returned by state agencies
See also:
Probate Judge Orders Return of Money
Hunter Removed Client Files
Class Action Filed
I am glad to see the money recovered and Hunter getting what's coming to her. It's sad, tho, that the stolen money won't go directly back to the wards.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to know they've not let up on Rita Hunter and are keeping the heat on her.
ReplyDeleteRita Hunter needs to spend the rest of her life seperated from society - in jail.
ReplyDeleteHow many Rita Hunter's are out there?
ReplyDeleteRita Hunter needs to be an example with harsh sentence - life in prison no mercy.
Rita Hunter is a liability, a thief, a serious threat to society.
Thank you for keeping the sunshine on this case.
Rita Hunter is a pirrah. Her name will always mean "thief".
ReplyDeleteThere are two types of people:
ReplyDeletePREADATORS and their PREY
I want Rita Hunter to have to dig deep into her very own pockets and pay back the stolen money.
ReplyDeleteAnd when she's in jail, I want her to have a job that pays directly to the victims.
the tip of the iceburg folks
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