PITTSBURGH The former administrator of a Mount Lebanon skilled nursing home has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, health care fraud and obstruction of a federal audit, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today.
The three-count Indictment, returned on February 24, 2021, named Susan Gilbert, of Lawrence, Pennsylvania, as the sole defendant. These criminal charges represent the first step in holding accountable those who put profit over the health and safety of seniors, said U.S. Attorney Brady. From 2018-2020, Gilbert and co-conspirators deprived seniors of patient care using inflated nursing hours, falsified timecards and other schemes that they concealed with two sets of records. We will continue to pursue every lead until justice has been achieved for seniors and their families in western Pennsylvania.
Everyday people around the country and Bedford County, residents get many phone calls on their cellphones or land lines phones, but most of them are not from people they know.
Many of these are unwanted calls, but by fraudulent callers who violate the state and federal do-not call lists in an attempt to scam consumers out of money or sending personal information.
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney Generalâs Bureau of Consumer Protection receives thousands of complaints each year with respect to illegal calls, including scam calls, telemarketing complaints, and robocalls according to their website.
These fraudulent callers also violate the Federal Communications Commission rules regarding robocalling which is an auto-dialer using a prerecorded message, and spoofing where the caller masks their true number with false caller ID information.
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A Wilmington, Delaware man is facing eight years behind bars for crossing state lines to Pennsylvania to have sex with whom he believed was a 14-year-old girl but was actually an undercover agent, authorities said.
Thomas Traumann, 53, began an online chat relationship through a social media website with the girl on Nov. 3, 2018, according to Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams.
Traumann repeatedly acknowledged that the “girl” was 14-years-old and made his intentions quite clear that he wanted to have a sexual encounter with her days later, Williams said.
He also knew what he was proposing was against the law, stating in part, “…I am a little concerned … I will go to jail because of your age, Williams said.
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