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Former government nurse ordered to pay up

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The feds want you, the feds want you… they want you to pay back $72,207 in restitution after you admitted to 1,771 phony trips to the YMCA as part of your rehabilitation reimbursements.

That’s the latest in the story of a Veterans Affairs hospital nurse who pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government after she injured her back at work in 1995 and submitted false expense reports stemming from rehab exercises she claimed she participated in from 2010 to 2016, according to documents in United States of America v. Linda Sue Parnell, filed Tuesday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.

The “long-running scheme” led Ms. Parnell to plead guilty to what was deemed wire fraud, only to appeal a district court’s restitution order on the basis that a statute of limitations barred her from repaying the money she acquired under false pretenses in her workers compensation ordeal.

The appeals court rejected her argument Tuesday, citing case law and that her “criminal conduct” occurred during the statute of limitations.  

 

 

 

 

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