Former Owner of Argillite Family Care Home Sentenced to 18 Months for Wire Fraud

ASHLAND, Ky. – Donna Sue Glass, 53, of Greenup, Kentucky, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on Monday by U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning.  Glass pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud, stemming from her conduct as the owner of the Glass Family Care Home, a now closed family care home located in Argillite, Kentucky.

 According to court records, Glass became the guardian over two of her residents and an authorized signor on another’s bank accounts, and, as to all three, misappropriated their money while acting as a guardian or caregiver.  According to her plea agreement, from September 2015 to April 2018, Glass used one resident’s bank account to purchase items for her personal benefit, including expenses for personal vacations, her daughter’s beauty pageant competitions, monthly tanning salon memberships, veterinary care for her pets, and other miscellaneous items, using a debit card she had no authority to obtain or use. 

In her plea agreement, Glass also agreed that she increased the rent of another resident over whom she had Guardianship, identified in the plea agreement as P.M.J., to an amount well in excess of what P.M.J. could afford.  Glass, as P.M.J.’s Guardian, accepted the rate increase to generate a debt P.M.J. would owe to her, and then took funds directly from P.M.J.’s savings account to satisfy this debt.  When P.M.J. moved to a higher-level nursing facility, Glass admitted she continued to accept and spend P.M.J.’s retirement benefits and failed to pay her new nursing facility, under the pretense that P.M.J. owed her money.

During the sentencing hearing, the Court announced that Glass misappropriated just under $95,000, and ordered restitution in the amount of approximately $87,700, to be paid to the estates of the three victims.  As a condition of her sentencing, Glass is required to pay the net proceeds for the sale of the Glass Family Care Home property to the United States to pay off some or all of this restitution amount.

Glass pleaded guilty on March 31.

Under federal law, Glass must serve 85 percent of her prison sentence, and upon her release from prison will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for 3 years.

Carlton S. Shier, IV, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Jodi Cohen, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Louisville Field Office, jointly announced the sentence.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI, with assistance from Adult Protective Services, a division of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Community Based Services.  The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Dieruf.

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