A Guyanese aide worker in the United States has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings bonds from a now deceased elderly American woman for whom she had been providing home health services.
According to a press release from the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut Vanessa Roberts Avery, Jhanannie Singh, also known as ‘Jasmine’ and ‘Sharmala Persaud,’ 52, a citizen of Guyana, who was last residing in Queens, New York, admitted to a conspiracy offence relating to the theft from an elderly woman who had purchased the bonds for her grandchildren and other family members.