A former Wyoming hospital CEO who disappeared before being tried on charges of defrauding his employers has been arrested in Thailand. FBI spokesman Dave Joly (JAHL'-ee) says that Paul Cardwell was arrested early Friday after fleeing in August. Joly says it could take up to a month to return Cardwell to face charges in Wyoming and Indiana. Cardwell is accused of stealing about $848,000 from Powell Valley Healthcare in Wyoming in 2011 and about $846,000 from White County Memorial Hospital in Monticello, Ind., between 2003 and 2009. He had been CEO of both. Prosecutors allege Cardwell would send funds to a bogus recruiting firm supposedly run by Michael Plake of West Lafayette, Ind., and that the two split the money. Plake received a 30-month prison sentence in May.
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