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Prison time for federal employee in cancer scam
cbs47.tv May 11, 2008
Robert Joseph Thom persuaded federal employees nationwide to donate nearly 1,000 hours of their own paid leave so he could take time off for fictitious cancer treatments. ... The 46-year-old Oceanside man pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wire fraud. Thom was an information...
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