A council boss who stole from the Grenfell Tower fire disaster fund is also at the centre of a £35,000 fraud investigation by Medway NHS Trust.Jenny McDonagh,worked for the health body, based at Medway Maritime Hospital, between 2015 and 2016.Ben McCardle, a spokesman for the trust said:”This is an active case which has been passed on to the Crown Prosecution Service. Therefore we are unable to comment further.”Fund manager McDonagh,39,stole £62,000 of cash handouts allocated to survivors of the inferno at the high rise block of flats in south west London.She blew the money on luxury holidays to Dubai and Los Angeles, fine dining and online gambling.She stole pre-paid cash cards while a manager of the Grenfell fire fund at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.McDonagh even continued to use the stolen cards without bank accounts, after police quizzed her under investigation in August 2018.At Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday she admitted two counts of fraud by abuse of position, one of theft by employee and one money laundering offence.The court also heard McDonagh, of Abbey Wood, south east London, is under investigation for two suspected frauds in her previous jobs, one at the NHS and another at the V&A… Read full this story
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