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Facts With Respect to Ms. Dawson’s Employers
Ms. Dawson was employed by Port Arthur Home Health Services
(PAHHS) and Beaumont Home Health Services (BHHS) from 1977 until
July 17, 1989. The corporations were wholly owned and/or
operated by Dr. Ruth Constant (Dr. Constant). During 1988 and
1989, Ms. Dawson was employed by PAHHS and BHHS as an accounting
supervisor and was the second person in charge of the
corporations after Dr. Constant.
PAHHS and BHHS each operated two different programs, a
Primary Care program and a Medicare program. Ms. Dawson had
complete authority over the payroll accounting for the programs,
including the input of data into the computer systems for the
payrolls and the review of the payrolls. Each of the four
programs (viz., PAHHS Primary Care, PAHHS Medicare, BHHS Primary
Care, and BHHS Medicare) had two checking accounts, a general
account and a payroll account, for a total of eight checking
accounts. While employed by PAHHS and BHHS, Ms. Dawson had
signature authority for, and was authorized to issue checks from,
all eight checking accounts and had complete responsibility and
full authority for the issuance of all payroll checks by PAHHS
and BHHS.
During the middle of 1987, petitioner worked for Dr.
Constant as a computer consultant. At such time, petitioner was
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