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Employee charged with embezzling money from hospital

Healthcare Security Weekly, February 11, 2008

A former marketing assistant allegedly embezzled more than $100,000 from a Columbus, OH hospital by hiring two friends and paying them for work they never did, prosecutors said.

The Franklin County prosecutor's office said employee Rana Miller, 43, embezzled money from Nationwide Children's Hospital for more than a year, starting in 2003, reported the NBC 4 television station. A grand jury indicted Miller and two of her friends Feb. 5 and accused them of diverting money into their personal accounts, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Miller was charged with theft and tampering with records after a Columbus police investigation of questionable activity with vendor invoices at the hospital. Prosecutors said she created fraudulent invoices for work that was never done and wrote checks to two of her friends. Investigators said security became suspicious of Miller in 2007 after an internal investigation at the hospital.

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