Woman pleads guilty to embezzling nearly $60,000 from doctor, son also charged
April 2021 • ZANESVILLE, OH – A former office manager who is accused of embezzling nearly $60,000 from a Zanesville dermatologist pleaded guilty Tuesday morning. ...
House arrest for woman who used relative’s identity to pay for teeth.
“She stated, ‘I needed teeth,’” the detective wrote in the probable cause. “She later explained it was for dentures.” May 6, 2021 • IDAHO...
Woman charged with felony embezzlement returning VHS 21 years late
April 25, 2021 • NORMAN, OK, “The first thing she told me was felony embezzlement, so, I thought I was gonna have a heart...
Your Front Desk Manager is stealing Frequent Flyer Miles. What would you do?
If this happened to you – what would you do? The Front Desk Manager claimed she was doing nothing wrong. When a patient paid...
My practice is “gone”! Planning for disaster.
It may be a fire, flood, theft, willful destruction or an unexpected car through your front window! A bit of advance planning will go...
Laughing gas thief targets dental office in South San Francisco
2/11/19- SAN FRANCISCO – A man has been breaking into a dental office in South San Francisco and stealing containers of laughing gas. Surveillance...
Caught on camera
Here are some dental practice incidents that were caught on camera Teaching your kids to steal. Dental “patients” steal credit cards from practice. The...
It’s the most powerful fraud deterrent; ever.
The Perception of Detection Imagine you are in a hurry and driving much faster than usual. You’re late for an important event that cannot...
A heuristic tool to assess an advisor’s trustworthiness
We often need trusted advisors to help us with our most pressing problems. There are many types of advisors; personal advisors, business advisors, legal...
Empowering Dental EFT & ERA Technology in the Digital Age
By Chris Haines – Dental WebSmart Solutions. It may not be surprising to learn that the National Automated Clearinghouse Association stated that only 86%...
Judge sentences Backus woman who embezzled funds from dental office
The woman admitted stealing from her former employer, that it had been going on since 2013 and she did it to support her gambling...
How to buy a Dental Practice
By Brian Hanks (www.brianhanks.com) I got a call from a dental practice owner in Florida last week who wanted to understand something about a...
Ex-employee of engineer gets prison for office theft
Jan 2021, LISBON, OH – Melissa K. Brennen, the longtime employee of the county engineer’s office caught stealing tax map money, was sentenced to...
How to Tell if Embezzlement is Happening in Your Dental Office
I wrote this article back in 2012 – the same principles hold true today. IT’S A FACT: Changes in employee behavior is often the...
It’s 4:00am. I’m burning the midnight oil, and there it is again!
I just spied a TeamViewer icon on the desktop of another dental practice computer. I checked to see if the TeamViewer program was registered...