Adminstrator Indicted
News4Jax had an article about a nursing home Administrator indicted for embezzlement, money laundering, credit card fraud and identity theft, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Riverview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Mary Burroughs stole the money over a one-year period from the center, a nonprofit organization that received millions of dollars in federal funding.
"The U.S. Attorney's Office is committed to investigating and prosecuting financial fraud and regaining what victims of these crimes have lost," U.S. attorney Edward Tarver said in a news release.
According to the indictment, between May 1, 2009, and April 30, Burroughs used her position as administrator to cause Riverview to issue multiple checks from its Wachovia money market account to cash, which she then used to purchase cashier's checks made payable to Burrough's Heating & Air and others. Burroughs embezzled more than $235,000 from the Riverview money market account. In addition, the indictment says that Burroughs used a Riverview credit card in the name of an employee she had terminated to make thousands of dollars of unauthorized and personal charges.
The indictment also says that Burroughs, without permission or authority, had others rip out copper piping and other metal objects from a Riverview building to be sold as scrap metal.
The indictment charges Burroughs with five counts of stealing from a program receiving federal funds and one count of credit card fraud. Finally, the indictment charges Burroughs with one count of aggravated identity theft, which requires a two-year consecutive prison sentence to any other sentence imposed.
