WATERLOO,IA --- A Grundy Center woman has been sentenced to prison for stealing from people with disabilities. As a credit counseling company employee, Mindy Sue Greany, 31, oversaw the funds of the blind and mentally challenged --- people who needed help keeping track of their money. Instead, she siphoned more than $100,000 from their accounts at Family Management Credit Counselors in Waterloo. On Friday, District Court Judge Margaret Lingreen sentenced Greany to spend up to 10 years in prison for her pleas to six counts of first-degree theft, eight counts of second-degree theft and one count of third-degree theft. One of the credit counseling clients had a simple question for Greany when he took the witness stand during sentencing. "He said 'Why did you steal from me?'" said Roger Goldsberry, director of Family Management Credit Counselors. Greany was an administrative assistant at the organization and took money between July 2003 and July 27, 2009. She was fired when the scheme was discovered and arrested in August. Goldsberry said the total amount of money involved --- including alleged thefts that weren't charged in the case --- topped $226,000. Two of three insurance carriers have paid clients for their loss, Goldsberry said. He said the last one was waiting for the criminal case to be finalized. "Hopefully it will all be paid back in 30 days," he said. Goldsberry said a Social Security audit determined the theft was a result of a single "rogue employee" and Family Management still is in good standing.
It's like stealing candy from a baby. Or selling a dead bird to a blind kid in a wheel chair (dumb and dumber). She should have to work one hour for every dollar stolen at the special olympics while being blindfolded.
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