Ex-VA official in Tucson admits to stealing funds

UPDATED: Ex-VA official in Tucson admits to stealing funds
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 10.02.2008
advertisementA former administrator for the local veterans hospital has pleaded guilty to fraudulently taking more than $365,000 from the agency.
Connie Sue Wilkinson, 54, pleaded guilty today in federal court to mail fraud, wire fraud and theft of government funds, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The plea deal states that between 2002 and 2006, Wilkinson, formerly the clinical director of education, training and development for the Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System, used several schemes to fraudulently take $365,816 from the agency.
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