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Capital Region Woman Admits Stealing $300K From Father, Including Military Pension Capital Region Woman Admits Stealing $300K From Father, Including Military Pension
Capital Region Woman Admits Stealing $300K From Father, Including Military Pension A woman from the region is facing years in prison after confessing that she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her veteran father. Schenectady resident Elaine Perkins, age 61, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in Schenectady County Court on Monday, March 4. Prosecutors said Perkins stole more than $300,000 from her elderly father over the course of several years after he was diagnosed with dementia and named her as his power of attorney in 2018. Relatives grew concerned after the woman placed the victim in a rehabilitation home in December 2021. That’s when they started noticing tax…

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Woman Admits Stealing $550K From Capital Region Employer: 'A Crime Of Greed' Woman Admits Stealing $550K From Capital Region Employer: 'A Crime Of Greed'
Woman Admits Stealing $550K From Capital Region Employer: 'A Crime Of Greed' Years of prison await a woman from the region who confessed to stealing more than a half million dollars from her employer. Rensselaer County resident Debra Powers, age 64, of Troy, pleaded guilty to theft and tax fraud in Saratoga County Court on Friday, Jan. 19. According to prosecutors, Powers admitted to using a company credit card for personal use while employed at Cascades Inc., located in the town of Waterford. An investigation by New York State Police found that she stole $548,993 over a five-year period. She concealed the unauthorized purchases by submitting phony, altered, or in…

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Employee At NY Pharmaceutical Company Admits To Embezzling $1.38M, Tax Fraud Employee At NY Pharmaceutical Company Admits To Embezzling $1.38M, Tax Fraud
Employee At NY Pharmaceutical Company Admits To Embezzling $1.38M, Tax Fraud A former employee at a New York pharmaceutical company has admitted to embezzling nearly $1.5 million and committing tax fraud. Long Island resident Maria Porras, age 32, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of grand larceny and tax fraud Friday, Sept. 30, in Nassau County court. Prosecutors said Porras worked as an officer manager at RxUSA in Port Washington, where her duties gave her access to the company’s bookkeeping system. Over a five-year period between 2015 and 2019, she generated checks written from RxUSA’s account and from the accounts of two other affiliated companies, Eveready Wh…

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by Michael Mashburn