Terese Valko, a former office manager for Woodland Family Dental in Higgins Lake, Michigan, was accused of stealing at least $50,000 from the practice. The case added to a series of high-dollar embezzlement cases in northern Michigan involving dental office staff and illustrates that practices in smaller communities face the same embezzlement risk as practices in major urban centres.
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