{"id":65463,"date":"2015-06-27T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=65463"},"modified":"2015-06-29T00:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T04:29:52","slug":"ex-planned-parenthood-accountant-gets-1-3-years-100k-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ex-planned-parenthood-accountant-gets-1-3-years-100k-embezzlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Planned Parenthood accountant gets 1-3 years for $100K embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A former Planned Parenthood accountant has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for embezzlement, the Buffalo News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city-region\/lockport\/ex-planned-parenthood-accountant-gets-prison-for-embezzling-20150626\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Melissa Kwoka was convicted of stealing $102,733 from Planned Parenthood of Western New York by forging checks to herself and her husband. She will also have to reimburse Planned Parenthood at a rate of $647.78 monthly, as well as $208.33 per month to M&amp;T Bank, from which the fake checks were drawn.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The paper notes that Kwoka\u2019s crime was actually the largest in a history of theft, including three convictions from before her employment with the abortion giant and stealing over five hundred dollars from a friend\u2019s bank account while on bail after her embezzlement conviction.<\/p>\n<p>She had initially been sentenced to just six months in prison and another four and a half years of probation. This latest sentencing of one to three years comes on top of her original guilty plea to grand larceny in the second degree.<\/p>\n<p>Though Planned Parenthood is the fraud victim in this case, Live Action News has previously reported on allegations that <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-pays-millions-to-settle-willful-fraud-medical-records-tampering\/\">Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast<\/a> and <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-forced-to-face-fraud-lawsuit-in-iowa\/\">Planned Parenthood of the Heartland<\/a> engaged in Medicaid fraud. The former agreed to pay back $4.3 million; the latter case is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Planned Parenthood accountant has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for embezzlement, the Buffalo News reports. In 2013, Melissa Kwoka was convicted of stealing $102,733 from Planned Parenthood of Western New York by forging checks to herself and her husband. 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