Plastic surgeon's employee charged with theft :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State

Plastic surgeon's employee charged with theft :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State

SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE
A woman from northwest suburban Inverness was charged with felony theft after allegedly depositing more than $70,000 belonging to the plastic surgeon she worked into her own accounts, police said.
Grace Artinian, 51, of the 1900 block of W. Ashbury Lane, Inverness, was charged Thursday evening with one count of felony theft, according to Chicago police. She was arrested at 12:02 p.m. Thursday at Belmont Area headquarters, 2452 W. Belmont Ave.
The incident was apparently uncovered when an investigator from Harris Bank where she had several accounts called Dr. Irvin Wiesman and asked if he had endorsed a check in the amount of $10,400 to his employee, Artinian, according to the report.
When the doctor said no, an audit was performed that revealed that since 2008, eleven checks totaling $70,300 that were issued to Dr. Wiesman in payment for patient services were all allegedly deposited into Artinian’s accounts.
Each check was made payable to the order of Dr. Wiesman but were signed on the reverse side, “pay to the order of Grace Artinian,’’ and the doctor never gave her the authorization to deposit his money into her accounts, the report said.
The Wiesman Cosmetic Surgery & Wellness Institute’s Web site listed two locations: The Natural Beauty Med Spa, 712 N. Dearborn St. in Chicago and 1160 Park Ave. in Highland Park. A voice mail message left at the Chicago location was not immediately returned.