SC Rad Bookkeeper Cops to $672K in Credit Fraud

A bookkeeper at a Columbus, SC radiology practice pled guilty last week to racking up $672,433 in unauthorized charges on the credit cards of her employers. Over five years, Robin Newman Maner, aka Robin N. Rogers, Robin R. Utsey, 43, of Blythewood, SC, confessed to charging jewelry, cruise vacations, electronics, furniture, and even a nose job on work accounts. Maner’s conviction could earn her as many as 30 years in federal prison.

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