Assisted Living Facility Administrator Ordered To Pay Back Elderly Resident In $46K Ripoff; Allegedly Dipped Into Unwitting Victim's Bank Account

In Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, The Tribune Democrat reports:

• A former administrator of a Johnstown assisted-living facility was put on probation for five years and ordered to pay $46,000 restitution for the money she stole from an elderly resident’s bank account by forging his name on checks. Debra Zilch, 44, of [...] Johnstown, also was ordered to pay $1,600 in fines and fees on her guilty pleas to four felony counts of forgery. County detectives had accused her of writing checks drawn on the account of a resident, then 91 years old, and cashing the checks between May 21 and Aug. 6, 2008.

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• At the time, Zilch was administrator and part owner of Speciality LifeCare Service, 429 Napoleon St. in Johnstown’s Kernville section. The facility later was closed by the state Department of Welfare for a series of deficiencies.

For more, see Ex-administrator sentenced.