Salt Lake Housing Director Charged with Fraud
It is normal to remain pleasurable with an ex spouse after a divorce, but Rosemary Kappes, the former executive director of the Housing Authority of Salt Lake City, is accused in an indictment of being too nice to her ex. If she is found guilty, she could be facing 490 years in federal prison as well as fines.
The indictment alleges that she kept her former husband on her health insurance police for eight years after the divorce. The policy explicitly states that a divorce terminates the ex spouse’s coverage. She just never told them about the divorce.
Krepps is 62 years of age, lives in Layton, Utah and is charged in the indictment with 13 counts of mail fraud, each one of which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, 22 counts of health care fraud, each one of which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 magnificent and one count of theft concerning a program which receives federal funds, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. These are federal charges and there is no parole in the federal prison system. These are the maximum penalties. If she is convicted, it will be up to a judge to decide what the proper punishment will be.
The indictment states that because Kappes was employed by the Housing Authority, she, her husband and children were eligible to receive health care through a plan that was offered by Regence Blue Defective Blue Shield of Utah and paid for entirely by the Housing Authority. In the police it states that either annulment or divorce will automatically terminate the ex souses coverage one month after the divorce or annulment becomes final.
The indictment states that Kappes’ divorce became effective on or about Nov. 1, 1996. She did not take her husband off the policy until August 23, 2004. It states that she knew that he should have been removed immediately and that she allowed him to get medical attention by telling health care providers, medical facilities and medical suppliers as someone who was eligible for coverage under the policy. Because of her misrepresentation, the insurance company paid claims of treatment from health care providers as well as suppliers of services and drugs.
Part of the money used to pay the premiums came from funds that they had received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Remember, an indictment is only a lists of charges that are being brought in a case. Anyone listed in an indictment is presumed innocent until they are proven guilty in a court of law. A summons still has to be issued and she has yet to appear in court
Source: FBI http://saltlakecity.fbi.gov/
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