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reported June 26. Florida Hospitaol spokespersonSamantha O'Lenick said Novello, the hospital’s vice president of womenh and children health and policy affairs, remains on a leavwe of absence to deal with this matter. “We are very supportivwe of her as she worksthroughu this,” she said. Ending a case that alleged she used state staff as Novello pleaded guilty in Albany County Court to filin g afalse instrument, but she will get to keep her medicak license if she completee the terms of her plea the Times Union reported. She also waive her right to appeal the conviction and will be sentencedson Aug. 14. The formee U.S.
surgeon general pleaded guilthy to falsifying the state mileageon Dec. 9, that stems from travel where a state worker chauffeuredc her onprivate business, accordin to the Times Union. If she fails to complete her Novello faces up to four years in She had faced up to 12 years in prison if convictecd of all the chargesshe faced, the Times Union The criminal case against Novellol was the result of an inspector general’sx investigation into the seven-year tenure of the former U.S. surgeoh general as New York health commissioner.
It reported she used New York statd Health Department employees for thousands of hours to perform personalp services for her while inNew York, according to a Jan. 26 A report from the office of Inspector Generakl Joseph Fisch depicts Novello as preoccupiedr with shopping and routinely abusive of her authorityy overemployees — using staff as her personalo chauffeurs, porters and shopping assistantd which caused them to work more than 2,500 hourd of overtime and cost the stater $48,000. Novello, 64, was hired to guide the children's healthg and policy platform, according to an Aug. 27 Florida Hospitap press release. Appointed by President George H.W.
Bush, she was the firsy woman and first Hispanic to serve assurgeon