Rob Kimes, executive director of the WV Funeral Directors Assoc. tells about a funeral director in Poca (Chad Harding - Gatens-Harding Funeral Home) who embezzled nearly a million dollars from working class folks in his community such as, aunts, uncles, parents, grandparents, mentally impaired pre-paid funeral contracts of his own clients.
WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey settled the case with the funds to be paid back to Homesteaders Life Company from which they were stolen and only with minor penalties such as a six month suspension of his funeral directors license due to political connections.
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