SALT LAKE CITY — A woman admitted to making purchases totaling thousands of dollars with a deaf man’s account without his permission while in a role as executive director at Rosewood Assisted Care in South Salt Lake and agreed to pay him back.
Ann Mareta Polataivao, 32, pleaded guilty on July 16 to communications fraud, a second-degree felony, under a plea in abeyance.
If she successfully completes her plea in abeyance terms, the second-degree felony will be reduced to a class A misdemeanor. As part of the terms, Polataivao agreed to register on the white-collar criminal registry and pay back $26,283 to the man, with interest, within one year. Her plea agreement said the repayment timeline would be “strictly enforced.”…