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Connecticut HHA Payroll Manager Nabbed For Writing Checks To 'Ghost Employees'

Published on Fri Sep 24, 2021

It’s not just Medicare fraud providers need to worry about. A home health agency payroll manager has been charged with tax fraud. Innis Frederick was formerly with Equinox Home Care in Stratford, Connecticut, which was co-owned by his sister Theresa Foreman. Frederick stands accused of “processing payroll that caused checks to be issued to ‘ghost employees,’ who did not actually [...]
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