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Caregiver hired despite failing background check <br />12/16/18, 11:50 AM <br />Mark Hafeli, a Sylvan Lake attorney representing Calcaterra's family, said the family was verbally assured ResCare conducted a thorough background <br />check and "would have never accepted Tangie into their home if they knew she had been convicted and put in jail." <br />iI Taylor, a spokeswoman for ResCare, declined to comment on the latest allegations. "I'm sorry, but we cannot discuss pending litigation," Taylor said <br />an e-mail to the Free Press. <br />According to the lawsuit, the background check ResCare performed missed two felony warrants for Coleman, who used several aliases. One was from <br />2002 for auto theft, which was later dismissed; the other from 2006 for check fraud, which resulted in a conviction, the parties agree. <br />But what's more, the background check did tern up two misdemeanor convictions, including a second offense for driving on a suspended license which <br />resulted in a seven-day jail sentence, the complaint alleges. <br />That means Coleman lied on her employment application when she said she had no misdemeanor convictions, but ResCare hired her anyway, and didn't <br />inform the family, the complaint says. <br />Further, records obtained by the family as a result of the lawsuit show Coleman had been reprimanded and had her pay docked for charging a large <br />number of personal phone calls to the account of another elderly client before she was sent to help Calcaterra, the complaint alleges. That problem was <br />never disclosed to the family, <br />The family says ResCare officials also assured them Coleman was licensed, which she was not. <br />Contact Pau! Egan: 517-372-8680 or pegan@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @paulegan4. <br />Read or Share this story: http://on.freep.com/lELLaof <br />https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/09/06/caregiver-hired-despite-failing-background-check/71578820/ Page 3 of 3 <br />