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Woman Claimed To Be Registered Nurse With Lofty Education. She Was A Fraud.

Ashe Schow
Woman Claimed To Be Registered Nurse With Lofty Education. She Was A Fraud.
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Sonja Emery seemed to have everything a hospital could want: Multiple master’s degrees and even a doctorate from prestigious universities; licensed in California, Connecticut, Georgia, and New York; and a lengthy and laudable resume.

She used these impressive credentials to get a job at an Ann Arbor, Michigan, health care consulting firm as a senior vice president, Fox News reported. Her annual salary? About $285,000. She was then able to secure consultant jobs at firms in Massachusetts and Wisconsin, where she was paid salaries between $226,000 and $267,000. Between 2015 and 2018, she was paid about $960,000 as a senior executive for a health services agency in a California county.

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