The 2008 Nurse of the Year Arrested for Not Being Nurse

Everything was going just fine for nurse Betty Lichtenstein. She was working for Connecticut Dr. Gerald Weiss doing what she loved, nursing. She would handle injections and give medical advise. All in a days work for a nurse.

That all changed for her when a patient complained about her injection procedures. As a result, Connecticut's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit started an investigation.

What they found was that nurse Betty Lichtenstein was not a nurse at all. No license or registration had ever been issued under that name. As a matter of fact, there is nothing to indicate that she even attended nursing school.

However, that didn't seem to stop nurse Betty, who, even went as far as to spend over $2,000 to throw a celebratory Nurse of the Year dinner for herself after the Connecticut Nursing Association's crowned her "Nurse of the Year" in 2008. As it turns out, the Connecticut Nursing Association never bestowed nurse Betty with such an honor. According to the arrest warrant, that organization doesn't even exist.

Well, it looks as though the former nurse Betty Lichtenstein won't be nursing anytime soon. The faux Connecticut nurse is looking at 5 years in prison if convicted on all charges.

Written by Gabriel Dorman
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