Alabama Attorney General Busts Nursing Home Employee For Theft
South Haven Nursing Home employee, Anne Marie Jones, stole $97,036 from residents of this Montgomery, Alabama nursing home. As an accounts payable clerk, Ms. Jones wrote checks on the nursing home patient trust fund and stated that resident personal needs were the reason for the expenditures, all the while depositing those funds into her personal bank account. She was also cashing checks that were sent to the nursing home for resident needs and depositing the funds into her personal bank account.
South Haven Nursing Home discovered the thefts after finding problems with the facility's patient trust fund. They turned over the information to the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. On April 30, 2008, Ms. Jones pled guilty to two counts of first degree theft and one count of second degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and has been sentenced to ten years in prison. She will serve three years actual time in state prison and five years of supervised probation. She also must pay restitution to her victims.
