(PA) Former detective loses 2nd bid to withdraw guilty plea in $1.3 million hospital theft
A federal judge has rejected a second attempt by a former fraud detective to withdraw his guilty plea to charges connected to the theft of $1.3 million from Butler Health System, saying the assertions that he didn’t understand what he was doing “border on the preposterous.” U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV said the case against Scott Roskovski will proceed to sentencing next month.
Roskovski, a former district attorney’s office detective in Butler County, and his wife, Stephanie Roskovski, former chief operating officer at Butler Health, stand convicted of stealing the money for their personal use. Prosecutors said the couple stole money meant for patient care and used it for vacations, home renovations and their 70-acre motocross business, Switchback MX.
Stephanie Roskovski embezzled the funds from 2011 to 2017 by using her corporate credit card for personal expenses that she disguised as business expenses. She also submitted false reimbursement requests and obtained merchant gift cards by claiming they were for business. In addition to stealing, the couple didn’t report the stolen money on their tax returns. After they were both fired from their jobs, they submitted false loan applications to a bank to refinance the motocross and buy a bulldozer.
S&T Bank extended a $1.1 million loan for the track and $55,000 for the bulldozer based on the false information, including the claim that Stephanie Roskovski was earning $275,000 a year when in fact she was unemployed.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/05/03/scott-and-stephanie-roskovski-butler-health-system-former-detective-guilty-plea-hospital-theft-judge-stickman/stories/202105030129
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Lock them up
