Tennessee woman faked breast cancer
March 10th, 2010 - 8:53 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 10 (Pen Men at Work): A Tennessee woman accepted guilt on Tuesday for lying about breast cancer in a con that made her attain thousands of dollars worth of sick leave. It was bestowed to her by her City Hall co-workers and she obtained currency from a church and other charities.
Keele Maynor, 39, accepted her involvement in theft and falsification and a Chattanooga adjudicator set May 17 as the date of sentencing. Maynor remains at large on bond. She declined to comment, as did Assistant District Attorney, Neal Pinkston.
Maynor has not communicated publicly about the case since she unexpectedly left her job as a subordinate in the city’s land improvement office in December 2008. It was then that her falsified illness claim was exposed. She professed in an e-mail then that her five-year claim of suffering from breast cancer was a farce. She accepted that she had faked breast cancer.
Maynor’s legal representative, Stuart Brown, divulged that the prosecutors had decided that the prison term will not surpass six years. Brown has expressed that he is optimistic that Maynor will be handed probation, which would permit her to continue working in order to reimburse the money.
Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge, Don Poole, queried Maynor about whether she comprehends that the judgment could range all the way from probation to the dungeon.
Brown elaborated that deliberations are in full swing about records on sick leave contributions that Maynor got from associates while she was a city employee. He revealed that the prosecutors had settled that the city benefits totaled less than $60,000, a threshold for a larger punishment. He said other hand-outs, including services offered by manifold cancer patient assistance groups, equaled about $27,000.
The array of robbery victims also includes New Salem Baptist Church in Soddy-Daisy, a Chattanooga neighborhood. A receptionist at the church refused to remark on Tuesday. Maynor was charged with accepting more than $500 from the church under the charade of suffering from cancer.
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