Former principal charged with embezzlement
A Danville, Pennsylvania, woman was recently ordered to pay a fine of nearly $2 million and serve 30 months in prison for embezzling more than $3 million in healthcare benefits from a Mount Carmel fire department ambulance company, according to The Daily Item.
Thea Tafner, who opened a fraudulent account for the American Hose and Chemical Fire Company, pleaded guilty to stealing the money over a nine-year period. As chairperson, she managed the department's financial operations, and diverted more than $3.7 million in Medicare payments into the account from October 2000 to November 2009, the news source reports.
Tafner - a former elementary school principal - was found to have used about $1.8 million of the money for personal expenses.
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, the treasurer of the Steelton Volunteer Fire Company in Dauphin County was recently charged with stealing more than $55,000 in fundraising proceeds from the organization, according to the Patriot-News.
Thea Tafner, who opened a fraudulent account for the American Hose and Chemical Fire Company, pleaded guilty to stealing the money over a nine-year period. As chairperson, she managed the department's financial operations, and diverted more than $3.7 million in Medicare payments into the account from October 2000 to November 2009, the news source reports.
Tafner - a former elementary school principal - was found to have used about $1.8 million of the money for personal expenses.
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, the treasurer of the Steelton Volunteer Fire Company in Dauphin County was recently charged with stealing more than $55,000 in fundraising proceeds from the organization, according to the Patriot-News.
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