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He wore it the same day that the 70-year-old man had to be hooked up to a respirator. His family became aware of the theft after the tragedy.
It was when the credit card receipt arrived, two weeks after Anthony Catapano’s death, that his daughter Tara discovered that someone had stolen her father’s card.
It had been used on April 9, three days before the patient’s death, to buy gasoline and groceries, which cost $ 60.
The young woman reported the robbery and thus they discovered that the thief had been one of the nurses who attended her father in the hospital of the University of Staten Island, in the United States.
It was Danielle Conti, 43, mother of a 5-year-old boy and who, for now, has been suspended from her job while the investigation against her is in progress.
“I can’t believe a person can do something like that to someone who is fighting for their life,” Tara Catapano told US media.
“It’s disgusting. Never in a million years did I expect any of this to happen, “he said.
“She is a despicable human being,” she added indignantly as she said she did not understand how the nurse had risked her job for only $ 60.