Former Bridgeport nursing home owner sentenced to prison for embezzlement
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The former owner of Bridgeport Health Care’s Bridgeport Manor was sentenced to prison Tuesday.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
NEW HAVEN The former owner of nursing homes in Bridgeport and Waterbury was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison after he previously pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars of employees’ benefits.
Although U.S. District Judge Janet Hall said the 72-year-old Chaim Stern had done a lot of good in his life, she said she could not overlook the fact that he had lied to his nearly 500 employees and stolen their pension and health care funds. Stern had owned the Bridgeport Health Care Center, Bridgeport Manor and the Rosegarden Health and Rehabilitation Center in Waterbury.
Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Chaim Stern of Flushing, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzlement and tax offenses related to his operation of nursing homes in Bridgeport and Waterbury.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Stern was the principal operator of the Bridgeport Health Care Center ( BHCC ), Bridgeport Manor, and the Rosegarden Health and Rehabilitation Center LLC ( Rosegarden ) in Waterbury, which were privately owned nursing and rehabilitation facilities. Between approximately 2011 and 2018, Stern stole approximately $4.1 million from the BHCC Pension Plan, over which he was the trustee, principally by diverting the money to a purported charity, called Em Kol Chai, which Stern controlled, as well as to himself and other entities. Also, in approximately Febr
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Operator of nursing homes in Bridgeport and Waterbury is imprisoned for stealing millions from employee benefit plans Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant
The operator of a nursing home group based in Bridgeport and Waterbury was sentenced to two and one-half years in prison Tuesday for embezzling millions of dollars from his employee benefit plans, leaving employees without health coverage and retirees struggling with delays in pension pay outs.
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Federal prosecutors said Chaim Stern, 72, of New York diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars to personal expenses. But they said Stern diverted far more to a faith-based charity he controlled in New York in an effort to maintain his position as a leader in his Hasidic community.
Hudspeth: Remembrance has been on both the national level and locally
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Stephen HudspethStaff / Hearst Connecticut Media
Over the last 30 days we’ve passed from violent takeover of our nation’s Capitol to inauguration of our new President to remembrance of the lives of the over 400,000 Americans lost to COVID-19.
That remembrance has been on both the national level and locally here in Wilton with separate services led by the Wilton Clergy Association and the Wilton Quaker Meeting.
Each service was powerful in its own way: The Quakers’ service offered extended quiet time for reflection in silent prayer for those lost to COVID and prayer that these turbulent times that are so challenging and so draining can yet become filled with peace. The Wilton Clergy Association’s service encompassed moving prayers, reflections and singing. It called upon us to have homes that are havens of peace, and in the words of Our Lady of Fatima’s Father Re