An Albury woman already in custody over serious driving matters including a police pursuit has now added fraud to her litany of crimes.
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Kate Eileen Mildren has decided to plead guilty over a scam where she received more than $4000 in Medicare rebates to which she was not entitled.
"Yes, I'm guilty your honour," Mildren told magistrate Rodney Brender in a video link between Albury Local Court and the Wellington Correctional Centre this week.
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But rather than proceeding to sentence after Mildren, 27, pleaded guilty to obtaining a financial advantage from a Commonwealth entity, Mr Brender granted an adjournment to allow for an update to a sentence assessment report already completed for other matters.
"I'm not against it," Mr Brender told defence lawyer Jaimee Simonsen.
"The last time I spoke to her," Ms Simonsen said, revealed "she's been doing quite a few programs in custody."
She said that needed to be considered as part of the report. Regardless, "I'm not ready to proceed today with sentence".
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Mildren's fraud is the latest in what has now become a long list of cases where people have lodged false invoices - purportedly for services provided by a Canberra-based anaesthetist - to Medicare and in turn, had rebates paid into their bank accounts.
The court was told that Mildren lodged three claims between February 9 and 16, 2018, for 12 services not rendered by Dr Danny-Glen Raiz.
Benefits from the first claim for $4328.95 were paid into Mildren's bank account.
Within a few days she made "a number of transfers", including one for $2500 into an ANZ account.
Mildren will be sentenced on November 26.