Ex-nursing home administrator to pay nearly $900K

It took a Daily News investigation, three attorneys general as well as eight years, though a disgraced former nursing home administrator is finally paying up, a Daily News has learned.For years, Ruby Weston, who operated two nonprofit Brooklyn nursing homes, used money intended for resident caring to enrich herself as well as her family. It was often taxpayer money.The News exposed her questionable financial dealings in 2004, as well as two years later, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a civil authorised case against her as well as a nursing homes.A settlement agreement was finally reached this week that requires Weston to repay $871,000.It is inexcusable for someone to profit at a expense of elderly, frail as well as vulnerable New Yorkers in nursing homes, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.While a 85-year-old Weston ran a 295-bed Marcus Garvey Nursing Home as well as a 240-bed Ruby Weston Manor, she paid herself a $500,000 annual salary as well as directed more than a $1 million to her son, Earl Weston, for IT work.Funds from Marcus Garvey also were used to pay for her Brooklyn Heights apartment together with furniture, health club memberships as well as a brand new car every two years.She also was paid a $500,000 bonus in 1995 for beginning construction of Ruby Weston Manor.And even after a authorised case was filed, Weston remained in control at Marcus Garvey. She did so until 2008, as well as was removed from Ruby Weston Manor in Mar 2010.She was paid $383,000 by Ruby Weston Manor in 2009.The agreement requires Weston to forfeit $821,000 in deferred compensation as well as to pay a state $50,000 to cover authorised expenses. The Marcus Garvey home will keep a $821,000. She also concluded never again to become an military officer of any New York nonprofit organization.Both homes have a history of providing substandard care, as well as a agreement calls for an overhaul in a way Marcus Garvey is run. Ruby Weston Manor is slated to be sold to a for-profit nursing home company.I'm glad to hear about a money, though what it comes down to is that residents were cheated for years as well as years from a caring they deserved, said Richard Mollot, executive director of a Long Term Care Community Coalition as well as a longtime advocate for nursing home residents. It's sad.A woman who answered Westons home phone said that she was very ill as well as incapable of taking a message.Westons attorney did not respond to a call for comment.With Heidi Evansblesser@nydailynews.com Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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