Ex-med center employee accused of time card fraud for $450,000

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10342569

Published Saturday May 24, 2008
Ex-med center employee accused of time card fraud
BY MAGGIE O'BRIEN
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

A former Nebraska Medical Center employee is accused of stealing about $450,000 from the hospital by padding her time cards for more than eight years.

Jayne Weber, 46, of Omaha was indicted in federal court Friday on four counts of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Authorities said Weber, who worked as a surgical technologist, used the hospital's telephone time-keeping system to claim more hours than she actually worked between January 1998 and October 2006.

According to the indictment, Weber knew she was inflating her work hours to gain a larger paycheck.

She could not be reached for comment.

The alleged scheme allotted her about an extra $56,000 a year in addition to her regular pay. "That's a lot of money over a long period of time," said U.S. Attorney Joe Stecher.

Officials from the Nebraska Medical Center were unavailable for comment. It was not known how long Weber had worked at the hospital.

Weber was not taken into custody. In the federal system, people accused of non-violent crimes who are not considered a flight risk usually are not jailed before a trial. She faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

[napi21]

1. I wonder how much her regular pay was? Unless it was pretty high,

I would think it would be pretty hard to hide $1,000 a week EXTRA?

[Suich]

2. That's what I was thinking. n/t

[napi21]

3. I was an accountant for 40+ years, and also worked P/R for a few of

those years. I can't believe their accountants, P/R processors or at the very least Department Head didn't find that much O/T over EIGHT YEARS! One of the companies I worked for had 250,000 employees, but I know I would have caught that kind of O/T...maybe not the first week, but I guarantee it wouldn't have gone on more than ONE MONTH!