The owner and manager of an Orange County nurse staffing agency were recently indicted after allegedly falsifying the employment history of individuals they put forward for licensing as director and teacher for their planned certified nursing assistant training institute, state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said.
Major Staffing LLC Owner Regina Yankey, 38, of Middletown, and manager Debra Polera, 63, of Newburgh, were charged with nine counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree. Schneiderman said the two knowingly submitted nine different falsified documents to the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision in Albany from Nov. 2013 to June 2014.
Yankey and Polera allegedly falsely submitted the information in order to have their planned training institute, Kings Career Training Institute, a school to train certified nursing assistants for the chronically ill and elderly, approved.
“Falsifying the credentials of those tasked with training individuals who will take care of vulnerable New Yorkers is irresponsible,” Schneiderman said. “Nursing home staff must have the highest level of training and experience; New Yorkers should expect nothing less.”
Yankey and Polera were arraigned in Albany County Court Wednesday. Assistant Attorney General Christina Randall-James will prosecute the case.
