NEW CITY – A doctor from New City has been indicted by a Rockland County grand jury on charges of grand larceny and 29 counts of offering a false instrument for filing.
It is alleged that Lena Samuel, 47, was a medical review consultant employed by the State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance who defrauded the state by collecting some $27,000 in wages for hours when she was working for another employer.
During that period, she submitted timesheets to the state agency claiming she worked remotely, when she was actually working in person at Saint Dominic’s Family Services in the Bronx during those same hours.
Also, when applying to work remotely for the state office, Samuel submitted three different doctor notes that were signed under the name Joan Ellen Rose, MD of the Division of Hospital medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
The investigation revealed that Mount Sinai has no record of this individual ever working there.
The incident was investigated by the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office Special Investigative Unit and the Offices of the New York State Inspector General.