A Calcium woman who is a self-employed home health aide surrendered Thursday morning to Watertown police to face her second round of prosecution on fraud allegations involving more than $85,000.
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Cheryl L. LaQuay, 62, of 24437 Gracey Road, also has prosecution pending in Onondaga County after being accused in November of collecting $53,000 fraudulently from the state Insurance Fund.
In Jefferson County, Ms. LaQuay is cited in a $32,629 welfare fraud case. She was arraigned Thursday in Watertown City Court on four felony counts brought by the fraud unit of the Jefferson County Department of Social Services: third-degree grand larceny, third-degree welfare fraud, first-degree offering a false instrument for filing and misuse of food stamps. She was released without bail following arraignment before Judge Eugene R. Renzi.
Her charges in Onondaga County are second-degree insurance fraud, workers’ compensation fraud and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing. Three state agencies — the Department of Financial Services, the Insurance Fund and the inspector general of the state Workers’ Compensation Board — conducted a joint investigation to file those charges. They alleged that she collected insurance benefits while failing to report her employment in private homes from October 2006 to last September.
