A former Sacramento County social worker has been sentenced to state prison after pleading no contest to felony grand theft from the In-Home Supportive Services Program.
Julie Mee Vue, 40, entered the plea today and admitted to an additional enhancement that the aggregate loss to the program exceeded $200,000, according to a Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office news release. Vue was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $278,777.52 in restitution.
Vue was extradited to Sacramento from Arkansas in September as part of a major fraud investigation into claims the she allegedly filed on behalf of people she had falsely enrolled as home health-care workers. As a Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services social worker, Vue handled cases for the state In-Home Supportive Services Program, which pays people to care for aged, blind and disabled individuals who live in their homes.
Vue worked for the county as a social worker between March 5, 2006 and May 3, 2008. Ten days after she left her employment, agency officials said, another social worker reported possible fraud payments.
The case resulted from an investigation by the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Human Assistance and the District Attorney’s IHSS Fraud Task Force.
[Read the rest at The Sacramento Bee: "Former Sacramento social worker sentenced to prison for fraud." Feb. 28, 2011. http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2011/02/former-sacramen-4.html ]
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