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Date: 08-31-2021
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Case Number: 2:20-cr-00038-JAW
Judge: John A. Woodcock, Jr.
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maine (Cumberland County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Portland, ME: Theft of health care benefits criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Melissa Tansey, age 51.
Beginning in March 2013, Tansey was employed as the sole administrative assistant and bookkeeper with a health care provider based in Falmouth. Beginning in November 2013, she began making unauthorized charges on the provider’s credit cards. In December 2013, she began writing unauthorized checks to herself. She would create fraudulent entries in the provider’s accounting software to make it appear that the payments were for legitimate expenses. This theft continued until January 2018, when the provider learned of her activity.
THEFT FROM A HEALTH CARE BENEFIT PROGRAM; 18:669.
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Outcome: Defendant sentenced to 12 months and one day imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, $100 special assessment, restitution ordered in the amount of $162,135.08.
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