The former CEO of a Milwaukee nursing home who stole from her nursing home while patients were neglected is going to prison for tax evasion. The CEO is alleged to have stolen over $1 million from her nursing home while patients were denied baths and clean sheets and one resident jumped to his death after the staff ignored his threats of suicide.
Karen Mason was the CEO of Havenwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Milwaukee. The facility was closed in 2005 after a state raid that uncovered severe neglect. While the patients suffered, authorities say that Mason stole more than $1 million and used the money to buy furniture, jewelry, new cars, and concert and sporting event tickets. She also spent money on vacations, wedding and honeymoon expenses, and payments to her yacht club.
In 2008, Mason pleaded guilty to theft and abuse of patients and was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay back more than $80,000 to the nursing home. In this separate tax evasion case, Mason was found to have collected more than $600,000 in income in 2004 without filing a tax return. She was sentenced to two years in prison.
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Former Nursing Home CEO Sentenced to Prison
I am glad to see her go to prison for any reason.
ReplyDeleteOrdered to pay back $80K to the facility? If she stole a million, $80K doesn't seem like much...
ReplyDelete. . .and the secretary said, 'I was just doing what I was told to do.'
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with management of the nursing homes? Nothing! There are good and bad people operating them.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong is the lack of MONITORING by the state.
Therefore, the state is responsible. However, punishing the state is not the answer, either, because that is a direct assault on the taxpayer!
The answer: Set up something similar to IOLTA, but not without management controls.