Monday 13th April, 2015

An Accounts Payable Manager was arrested last week on charges that she defrauded her former employer, a US diagnostics health care provider out of over $300,000.

According to Police, Jessica L. Hess, from Port St. Lucie, Florida, defrauded Aurora Diagnostics out of $371,496.24 between March 2011 and July 2014. Hess first started working for the company in 2009, based at their headquarters in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

She was arrested on Wednesday 8th April and released from the Palm Beach County Jail the following day on bail. She faces charges of fraud, grand theft and making false entries on the books of a company.

The company began investigating Hess in June after receiving an anonymous tip off. As reported in the Palm Beach post, according to police, she used two personal bank accounts that were linked to businesses and people no longer associated with the company.

The arrest report said that she used cashier’s cheques to withdraw the money and sent cheques or cash to various people she knew.