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Care worker scammed €80k in payment fraud

Date
2019-11-28

Stage
Sentence

Primary locality
Kildare

County
Kildare

Summary

Jason Russell, 37, was jailed for two years after submitting fraudulent monthly time sheets to Cheeverstown House between 2014 and 2017, receiving about €80,000. Gardai discovered the fraud in 2017 while Russell worked as a delivery driver, finding 12 undelivered boxes of clothes worth €5,000. Russell pleaded guilty to theft and submitting false time sheets, and to stealing clothing in October–November 2017. Judge Martin Nolan noted Russell's guilty plea, cooperation and lack of likelihood of re‑offending, but also his brazen defrauding with malice, forethought and planning. He was sentenced to three years, with the final year suspended, and ordered to surrender €10,000 to the garda for transmission to Cheeverstown House. Russell had one prior road‑traffic conviction and had been attending counselling for gambling issues. The court heard that Russell's family was under financial strain at the time of the offences.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Care worker scammed €80k in payment fraud. Charges or matters: theft and submitting fraudulent time sheets for payment at Cheeverston House, Tallaght Road, Dublin, on dates between 2014 and 2017; stealing clothing valued at €5,000 on dates between October and November 2017. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

November 2017 Hearing Or Sentence
2014 and 2017 Other
2019-11-28 Publication

Case subjects

Jason Russell

Defendant

Charges: theft and submitting fraudulent time sheets for payment at Cheeverston House, Tallaght Road, Dublin, on dates between 2014 and 2017; stealing clothing valued at €5,000 on dates between October and November 2017 (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: He said Russell had brazenly defrauded Cheeverstown House of a sum of money with malice, forethought and planing and deserved a custodial sentence. He imposed a three years sentence and suspended the final year.