{"id":16805,"date":"2026-03-02T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16805"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:27:25","slug":"nurse-convicted-after-scamming-112k-off-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16805","title":{"rendered":"Nurse convicted after scamming $112k off colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nurse who scammed more than $100,000 from her colleagues for gambling has paid all the money back – but that was not enough to help her escape a conviction.<\/p>\n

Angelina Nicole Therese Avisado Reyes, a nurse at Waikato District Health Board at the time of her offending, was so persistent with one victim that he ended up transferring $107,000 to her over six months.<\/p>\n

That victim cashed in investments, withdrew savings, and handed over part of his inheritance from a dead grandparent, after Reyes claimed she had tried to commit suicide because she was so stressed.<\/p>\n

She spent the money gambling<\/a>, and during the offending period attended a Taylor Swift concert in Sydney, a Yankees game and a Justin Timberlake concert in New York.<\/p>\n

However, at her sentencing this week, Judge Denise Clark accepted an affidavit from Reyes in which she stated her partner at the time paid for her New York trip, and<\/p>\n

she was not gambling when she went to the Taylor Swift concert.<\/p>\n

Defence counsel Raewyn Sporle said Reyes had insight into her offending, had self-referred to the Problem Gambling Foundation, and was now at a “no to low” chance of experiencing gambling harm – but it wasn’t enough to convince the judge she should escape a conviction.<\/p>\n

“I have looked at this really, really carefully … but I can’t say that a conviction would be out of all proportion to the gravity of your offending,” Judge Clark told Reyes in the Hamilton District Court as she entered convictions to three charges of obtaining by deception, one of which was representative, after taking $112,000 from her colleagues.<\/p>\n

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A nurse who scammed more than $100,000 from her colleagues for gambling has paid all the money back – but that was not enough to help her escape a conviction. Angelina Nicole Therese Avisado Reyes, a nurse at Waikato District Health Board at the time of her offending, was so persistent with one victim that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16807,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805\/revisions\/16807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}