Fifty-one-year-old Leticia Gallarzo will serve 75 months in prison. The former Wayland resident was indicted by a federal grand jury with wire fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft, two counts of making false statements in medical records affecting health care benefit programs, and production of a false identification document.
Gallarzo represented herself as a registered nurse gaining employment at a West Michigan hospice facility. But three years ago, when that facility ran her fingerprints, it revealed her past. A federal conviction in Texas where Gallarzo also practiced without a license in 2015 and 2016.
In Michigan, she was charged with identity theft accused of using the license number and name of a registered nurse to fraudulently obtain employment. She also misrepresented herself as having earned a master’s degree in nursing from George Washington University. Federal investigators discovered she possesses no nursing degrees.
