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Caregiver hired despite failing background check <br />12)16/18, 11:50 AM <br />Subscribe Today <br />(http://offers.freep.com/ <br />gps- <br />source-BEMBUtm_mec <br />exchange&utm_campaq <br />Caregiver hired despite failing background check <br />Pa__W Fgm Detroit Free Press Published 11:47 p.m. Er Sept. 6, 2015 <br />(Photo: Kimberly P. MrtcheIVDebmit <br />Free Press) <br />A caregiver accused of stealing more than $1 million from an Oakland County man was hired by a home care <br />company despite lying on her employment application and failing a background check, which showed she had <br />a criminal record, the man's family alleges in a court filing. <br />Frank Calcaterra's family is suing ResCare in Oakland County Circuit Court, alleging the company placed a <br />thief inside the Waterford home of the elderly man in 2008 when he was looking for someone to help him take <br />care of his wife, Jonnie, who had Alzheimer's disease. <br />After Calcaterra's wife died in 2012, home care worker Tangie Coleman took him to Ohio and married him. At <br />the time, he was 86 and she was 35. <br />By the time the daughters of the wealthy former funeral home owner, who lived out of state, got him out of his lakefront home in 2014, Calcaterra was <br />broke, malnourished and living in the basement; Coleman and her mother were living upstairs, the Free Press reported in August 2014. A judge later <br />annulled the marriage. Based largely on banking and credit card records, his daughters and Jonnie's daughter estimate Coleman bilked the couple of <br />between $1 million and $1.5 milfion in cash and valuables. <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />https://www.freep.com/story/news/local)michigan/oakland/2o15/O9/O6/caregiver-hired-despite-failing-background-check/7l578820/ Page 1 of 3 <br />