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Day-care providers heard for the first time Tuesday they were cheated out of $2,700 each in wage subsidies when their employer pocketed more than $70,000 meant for them.
Stacy Certossi, 39, who has two children of her own, pleaded guilty before the start of her trial to defrauding the District of Nipissing Social Services Administration out of the money meant for home-care workers employed with her business, Northern Home Child Care Agency, in 2006.
"Child-care workers are some of the less well-paid workers in our community," Crown attorney Paul Condon told court.
The big issue in this case, Condon told the workers, was getting money back to redistribute to the providers who were entitled to it.
None of the money has been paid back.
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- reprinted from the Sudbury Star