Nursing home employee gets probation; stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from elderly resident

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A former Waltham nursing home employee was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly resident, Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday.

Christina Polcari, the former admissions director at the Meadow Green Nursing Home, pleaded guilty in Middlesex Superior Court to five counts of forgery and one count each of larceny over $1,200 from a person over 60 years old and embezzlement by fiduciary. Polcari, 54, of Belmont, faced a maximum of 30 years in prison if she was convicted of all three charges and sentenced consecutively. From August 2018 to May 2019, Polcari engaged in a scheme in which
she misappropriated more than $230,000 of the elderly resident’s money and spent it on personal expenses, including restaurants, repairs to her home and vacations for her and her family, according to prosecutors.

But Judge Paul Wilson sentenced her to three years of probation, with the conditions that she have no contact with the victim, witnesses and the Meadow Green facility and staff; refrain from non-familial fiduciary and power of attorney duties; refrain from any licensed social work; refrain from employment in which direct compensation is derived from MassHealth or Medicaid; and refrain from non-familial fiduciary work with disabled people or anyone over 60 years old. Wilson also
ordered her to pay $76,000 in restitution to the victim and a $5,000 fine.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/04/20/former-nursing-home-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-from-elderly-resident/

[ret5hd]

1. Man...Probation and a $149,000 profit (at a minimum)...

talk about deterrence...I'll bet she never does anything like that again!!!

[ripcord]

7. It says in the article

That she already repaid $154,000 to the victim.

[ret5hd]

8. Ahhh...well, all that reading and comprehending...

and stuff...I maybe oughta try that sometime when I don’t have important things to do like make rash comments on DU.

[ripcord]

9. I tend to not look deeper myself

But the amount she was being made to pay back was so ridiculous I had to look.

[PCIntern]

2. Crime apparently pays

[4Q2u2]

3. The American Lie

Lately we have been talking about the "Big Lie", but long before that one is the "First Great American Lie" That we love and care for our Children and Elderly.
The Second Great American Lie is that White Woman are paragons of Virtue and never really do anything wrong, so jail is tooooo harsh for them.

[demosincebirth]

4. Something smells really bad.

[malaise]

5. This is ridiculous

These low life scumbags who rob vulnerable old people need lengthy prison sentences