Stolen $140K Allegedly Spent at Casinos, Wisconsin Home Care Worker Sentenced
A Wisconsin rest home tutelage auxiliary spent nearly $140,000 at gaming properties from money she allegedly stole from an elderly woman. The suspect of late was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration. She also must make up support almost $303,000 to the 70-year-old victim.
Kassie A. Wujkowski, 29, of Arbor Vitae will also live placed on extended oversight for 18.5 years after she is released from confinement. The condemn was issued after Wujkowski pled shamefaced cobbler's last month to 2 counts of theft greater than $10,000.
A say investigating revealed that betwixt Oct 2017 and October 2019, Wujkowski completed 1,324 financial transactions using the victim’s deferred payment cards. They totaled $313,774.
Wujkowski also paid herself and her fellowship over $80,000, prosecutors claim. Wujkowski’s salary was supposed to follow $1,250 a month.
She also allegedly used over $20,000 of the money to pay her possess credit entry identity card bills. In total, over $400,000 was stolen from the victim, prosecutors added.
The caseful was investigated past the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigations (DCI). It was prosecuted by the Oneida County District Attorney’s Office.
Elder Fraud Growing Problem
In October, a CT lawmaker was arrested on a federal wire fraudulence charge. He allegedly stole to a greater extent than $600,000 to monetary fund his gaming excursions.
Connecticut Rep. Michael DiMassa (D-West Haven) late appeared before US District Margaret Court Judge Sarah Merriam before beingness released on $250,000 bail. His next court of justice show is on March 10.
Under the scheme, DiMassa formed an entity called Compass Investment Group LLC. He allegedly used the accompany to slip COVID-19 embossment finances from the urban center of Occident Haven. In gain to beingness a country lawmaker, DiMassa has been a Occident Haven urban center employee for 12 years, and was the administrative supporter to the Rebecca West Haven City Council.
In that role, DiMassa likely had get at to the $1.2 1000000 inward COVID-19 ministration money the US government supplied the CT townsfolk through the CARES Act, prosecutors said.
“Elder fraudulence and development is a growing problem, with an estimated $77.8 1000000 lost annually in Wisconsin,” Badger State Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a recent statement. “It is also a immensely underreported crime.”
Defendant Allegedly Used Money at Mohegan Sun
DiMassa made legion(p) withdrawals from Compass. Much of that money went toward his gambling trips to the Mohegan Sun tribal cassino in Eastern Connecticut, prosecutors added.
He ofttimes visited Mohegan Sun, where he allegedly purchased big amounts of gaming chips.
In May alone, he allegedly purchased $57,600 inwards casino chips.