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...
O’Fallon woman indicted for embezzling $1.68 millon from retired doctor
At the height of the alleged theft, Dvorak “was stealing over 50 percent of plaintiff’s gross income” FEB 2020 – An O’Fallon woman is...
Embezzler redirected Medicaid payments to her own account.
AUG 2020 TULSA, Okla. – A Broken Arrow woman is out on bond after being accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from her employer....
Dental embezzler gets nine months of electronic home monitoring.
May 2016 – The former manager of a dental office in Bothell, Washington is facing felony charges in connection with false insurance claims and...
Australian Dental Employee Tina Maree Bartlem stole $750K from dental practice
AUS 2017 – A Gold Coast mother has been jailed for seven years for siphoning almost $800,000 from her boss. Watch the 7 News...
Emily Trimble accused of stealing hundreds of thousands from Atlanta Dental Spa
Emily Trimble was arrested back in 2015 by the Roswell Police Department She was booked for Computer Forgery and Financial Transaction Card Fraud. Emily...
Woman admits to stealing more than $400K from Ultradent
Feb. 26, 2013 – SALT LAKE CITY — A South Jordan woman admitted Monday that she embezzled more than $400,000 from her employer over...
Miranda Wolf charged with embezzling over $100,000 from Carthage dental practice
Dec 31, 2020 – Carthage, MO • The office manager of a dental firm in Carthage stands accused of misappropriating more than $100,000 of...
Woman sentenced for embezzling $1.1M from two practices
Jan 5, 2021 – PORTLAND — A La Grande woman was sentenced to federal prison on Tuesday, Jan. 5, for defrauding two separate employers...
Judge calls woman’s 2nd embezzling conviction ‘shocking’ and ‘astounding’
Two embezzlement convictions in the span of 13 years necessitates that 48-year-old Rebecca Sue Barrera spend time locked up, Kent County Circuit Court Judge...
Morganton woman sentenced for embezzlement
Sep 28, 2015 – Marion, NC – A Morganton woman was sent to prison on Monday for embezzling more than $300,000 from a Marion...
What reports to ask for and to keep off-site.
The purpose of this 5-minute Dental FraudBuster is to ensure that you have offsite copies of essential reports in the event you need them...
Woman charged with embezzling over $100,000 from Pine River Dental Arts
The owner reported that during the COVID-19 pandemic office shutdown, she began to examine the business’ records and discovered the theft. Looking ahead –...