Nurses Steal $750K From Brooklyn Hospital: AG

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Two nurses stole $750,000 from a Crown Heights nonprofit hospital that recently declared bankruptcy, the Attorney General's office announced Tuesday.

Keisha Demas, 42, and Alla Noginsky, 55, pleaded guilty of submitting phony time sheets, charging Interfaith Medical Center for work that was never done, between 2012 and 2016, according to Attorney General Letitia James.

Demas and Noginsky, both contract nurses from an outside agency, payed kickbacks to Interfaith worker Marco Vanni, 53, in exchange for help fraudulently billing the hospital, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors estimate Demas collected more than $600,000 in "no-show" paychecks and Noginsky was paid more than $125,000.

Demas was also convicted of defrauding Medicaid in 2014 of more than $30,000 and failing to pay $40,000 in New York State taxes, said prosecutors.

Demas pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand larceny and tax fraud in Brooklyn Supreme Court, and is expected to be sentenced to 5 months jail on March 15, according to prosecutors.

Noginsky and Vanni, who began cooperating with the investigation in 2017, pleaded guilty in 2018 to petit larceny and grand larceny respectively, prosecutors said.

Vanni paid $200,000 in restitution and is expected to receive five years of probation while Noginsky paid $125,000 in restitution and will be sentenced to a two-year conditional discharge, said prosecutors.

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