A former Northeast Health Wangaratta (NHW) employee has avoided conviction after swindling more than $34,000 from the hospital in offending that “mystified” everyone around him.
The 49-year-old appeared at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday in front of a packed court room to plead guilty to 17 charges of obtaining funds by deception.
He was previously facing 92 charges, but they wer...