![]() She reported her findings to Timothy Reynolds, director of nursing at Classen. She noticed that two caregivers were claiming the same hours on their time sheets for the same client. Phyllis Joyce, a nurse at the agency, discovered the larceny in October 2014. This all began in early 2012 just after she and her husband separated. Part of Dixon's job at Classen was to compare scheduled work to the hours the employees reported, so she'd simply ask to check the numbers for accuracy and then add a few extra hours for that pay period to her time records. In the first scheme, a classic payroll fraud, she duped her employers into paying her more than she actually worked by padding her timesheet. (See, Ithaca woman who stole 30K from employer sentenced, by Kelsey O'Connor, Ithaca Journal, April 5.)ĭixon had committed two types of fraud. Judge John Rowley of the Tompkins County Court sentenced her to five years of probation and restitution totaling $44,438. On March 18, less than four weeks before the traffic stop, Dixon pleaded guilty to one count of grand larceny in the fourth degree for embezzling nearly $45,000 from her Ithaca employer, Classen Home Health Care Associates. (See, Lots of tears, no bail for Ithaca woman who reportedly had nearly 90 lbs of marijuana, Ithaca Voice, by Jolene Almendarez, May 2.) Her attempt to score a quick buck and turn her life around by muling drugs from the West Coast to Ithaca, New York, had gone hopelessly wrong. She was later charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. The officer pulled her over, discovered a duffel bag containing 90 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $400,000 in her vehicle and arrested her. Irene Dixon was driving on I-80 outside of Lincoln, Nebraska, when she saw the flashing lights of a Lancaster County Sheriff car in her rear-view mirror.
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