The Indiana County Court schedule today includes a motions hearing for 57-year-old Peter Paul Grabaskas, the former Chief Operating Officer of Phoenix Rehabilitation Health Services, who is charged with stealing funds from the company over a twenty-month period between January of 2016 and August of 2017.
Grabaskas was fired by Phoenix in 2017 when he refused to repay a $250,000 loan from the company CEO, David Watson. After his dismissal, Grabaskas left Indiana County and became CEO of Ocean State Healthcare in Rhode Island. It was also after he was fired the Phoenix found evidence that he had used the corporate credit card to ring up $138,590 worth of charges.
There are two cases filed against Grabaskas. One charges him with theft by failure to make required disposition of funds, theft by unlawful taking, and theft by deception. The other charges him with forgery, unsworn falsification to authorities, and theft by deception. He is asking the court to join the cases together. A defense request for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, with the assent of the victim, was previously denied by the court.
There is also a motions hearing today for 40-year-old Jerome Robinson of Indiana, who is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated assault, and simple assault for incidents in September of last year at an apartment in the 700 block of Gompers Avenue in Indiana.
Borough police began the investigation after the injured infant was taken to the Indiana Regional Medical Center.
Robinson’s attorney is asking the court for funds to pay for an expert witness. He’s scheduled for Criminal Call on November 6th.
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