A recent Indictment shows how this played out for one couple where the wife worked as an executive at a hospital and the husband worked as a detective with the local district attorney's office.
On April 19, 2019, Stephanie J. Roskovski and her husband, Scott A. Roskovski, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, embezzlement from a healthcare benefit program, conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering and false statement in a loan application. An Indictment is an accusation and is not evidence. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Indictment alleges that the Roskovskis, during the years 2011 through December 2017,
perpetrated a fraud totaling more than $1.3 million on Butler Healthcare
Providers, d/b/a Butler Memorial Hospital, where Stephanie Roskovski was
employed and, for much of that time, served as the hospital’s Chief Operating
Officer.
During the time, Scott Roskovski was employed as a detective with the
Butler County District Attorney’s Office where he conducted investigations
involving fraud and other financial crimes. Counts One through 23 of the
Indictment allege that the defendants conspired to and did defraud Butler
Healthcare Providers by submitting requests to Butler Hospital for alleged
business-related expenses that were used, or intended to be used, for personal
expenditures.
Those personal expenses allegedly included, among others, family
vacations, household furnishings, concert and event tickets, and the purchase
of, and expenses associated with, a motocross racetrack they purchased in 2015
known as Switchback MX, LLC, located in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Counts 24 through
28 charge Stephanie Roskovski with embezzling funds from a healthcare benefit
program. Count 29 through 35 charge the couple with conspiring to launder the
proceeds of the fraud and with engaging in monetary transactions intended, in
part, to conceal their theft, as well as in monetary transactions involving
fraud proceeds in excess of $10,000. Counts 36 and 37 allege that in March and
July of 2018, the Roskovskis made false statements to a bank in applying
for two loans totaling approximately $1.2 million. The indictment also includes
forfeiture allegations.
This is one of those cases where the fact that the "victim" is a hospital made the charges in this case more severe. One of the key issues will be whether restitution is made to the hospital or whether the properties can be used to satisfy restitution.
Posted by Tracy Green, Esq.
Green and Associates, Attorneys at Law
Posted by Tracy Green, Esq.
Green and Associates, Attorneys at Law
