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Attorney General Nick Brown is warning Washington residents about a scam targeting injured, Spanish-speaking workers across the Pacific Northwest. This scam has not yet been documented in Washington, but Washington workers should be aware that they may be targeted.
El Procurador General Nick Brown advierte a los residentes del estado de Washington sobre una estafa dirigida a trabajadores hispanohablantes lesionados en todo el Noroeste del Pacífico. Aunque esta estafa aún no se ha documentado en el estado de Washington, los trabajadores deben estar atentos, ya que podrían convertirse en sus víctimas.
(Updated June 16, 2026, to add details on Njenga’s prison sentence and a statement from one of the nurses whose identity was stolen.)
A King County jury delivered a guilty verdict on all 11 counts in a trial against a man who ran a fraudulent scheme to use stolen identities of real nurses to send unqualified imposter nurses into long-term healthcare facilities.
The case was investigated and prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud & Abuse Division of the state Attorney General’s Office, Washington’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
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