It sounds like she was having them work for her on the taxpayers’ dime which is malfeasance and fraud every time it happened and those are Penal Law, i.e. criminal violations, and in line with the question and response before the court. You have to willingly admit your guilt in open court to plead guilty in New York, which is a safeguard to prevent your attorney from selling you out, and to ensure you understand the consequences of the plea.
As for the Florida Hospital position, I would want to see her employment contract, because I don’t see this as being anything but a loser for them. Even though NY didn’t pull her medical license, she pled guilty to a felony, and I was under the impression that that automatically cost you any professional licenses in Florida.
But she is a Republican, so there’s probably an exemption.
]]>Unless someone is a blood relative or owes me a great deal of money, I personally find it very hard to be “very supportive” of that person if he or she intentionally entered into an effort to engage in fraud. I can see ‘forgiveness’ toward a fellow human being as a Christian gesture, but “very supportive” escapes me…
BTW, the Orlando Sentinel needs to work with its headline writers. It would appear that she defrauded the state of New York and its taxpayers, not the workers. If they feared for their jobs if they failed to obey her whims, there are other words that more appropriately apply….
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