Thursday, August 22, 2013
Former Nursing Home Employee Accused of Stealing over $10,000
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A former nursing home employee is facing charges of elderly exploitation. Over a span of six months, police said Stefani Bridges stole over ten thousand dollars from an elderly man she was caring for while working at a nursing home near 73rd Street and Northwest Cache Road.
Police said Bridges was authorized to make purchases for an elderly man through the use of his bank card. But police said instead in a string of transactions, she transferred the money onto her own credit cards.
She vowed to take care of the elderly living at this nursing home. But instead, Bridges allegedly bilked an elderly man of over ten thousand dollars.
Red flags were raised after the nursing home's Director of Finance was contacted by a bank and was told that a bank account belonging to one of their residents had been overdrawn by thousands of dollars. The missing money was traced back to employee Stefani Bridges.
Once confronted Bridges admitted to her coworkers that she had in fact taken the money. She was able to do it after she transferred money from her victim's account and into her personal accounts including credit cards.
She used the money to pay off some of her debt and also spent several hundreds of dollars while making her cell phone payments.
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If the government doesn't set up standards for the nursing homes, they should be sued for permitting such conversions.
It seems there are more and more of these stories in the press.
There are more and more of these, but the big bad boys with the court-sanctioned "License to Steal are protected.
STILLWATER, Okla. — The case of a Stillwater woman accused of embezzling nearly half a million dollars during her time as a legal guardian was continued until Sept. 27 by District Judge Phillip Corley on Friday.
Dana Kathleen Frank, 57, was the legal guardian of Robert Spaulding, 89, from March 2010 to September 2012. During that time, Frank wrote and cashed approximately 180 checks totaling approximately $500,000 from Spaulding’s bank account, according to court documents.
An affidavit indicates Frank was seen on a surveillance camera cashing a check on Aug. 7, 2012.
On Sept. 7, 2012, an Adult Protective Services employee turned Frank over to police when she discovered the embezzlement, an affidavit states.
She has entered a not guilty plea.
See more at: http://www.stwnewspress.com/local/x1538952219/Case-continued-on-Stillwater-woman-accused-of-embezzling>
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