Office Manager of Moberly, Missouri Funeral Home Sentenced on Fraud Charges
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Office Manager of
According to court documents, Smith was hired by the original owner of the
To pay for funeral expenses of a client, MTHF first used money from its general operating fund to cover these expenses. Then Smith was supposed to recoup payment for the funeral expenses from the representatives or family members of the deceased, from the life insurance of the deceased, and/or from pre-needs insurance accounts of the deceased. When the payments were received, Smith was to deposit them back into the general fund. If she was not able to recoup full payment for funeral expenses of a client, she reported this information to Federated and informed them that the account was a bad account and that they should write it off as no further effort would be made to recoup payment for these expenses. This way she was able to conceal that she had stolen some client payments made for funeral expenses, which she deposited into the escrow account.
While
Smith, 40 , Higbee,MO, pled guilty in May to one felony count of wire fraud, and appeared today for sentencing before United States District Judge
The case was investigated by the
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