UPDATE: Peter Paul Grabaskas was sentenced this morning to serve three years of probation for a felony charge of forgery and two years of probation for the misdemeanor unsworn falsification to police charge. The probation periods will run concurrently. He was also ordered to make restitution to Phoenix Rehabilitation and pay all fines.
WHAT WE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
In Indiana County Court today, the former chief operating officer of Phoenix Rehabilitation Health Services will be sentenced for stealing funds from the company over a 20-month period between January of 2016 and August of 2017.
At a non-jury trial in April, Senior Judge William Martin found 57-year-old Peter Paul Grabaskas guilty of forgery and unsworn falsification to authorities, and not guilty of theft by deception.
Grabaskas was fired by Phoenix in 2017 when he refused to repay a $250,000 loan from the company CEO, David Watson. After his dismissal, Grabaskas left Indiana County and became CEO of Ocean State Healthcare in Rhode Island. Phoenix then found evidence that he had used the corporate credit card to ring up $138,590 worth of charges between January of 2016 and August of 2017.
In 2019, Grabaskas asked the court for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition with the assent of the victim, but was denied.
