Nurse who oversaw 60 patients at several California hospitals 'exposed as a fraud with no qualifications'

A 'nurse' who worked at several hospitals in Southern California and her home state of Virginia has been exposed for allegedly having no real credentials. 

Amanda Leeann Porter, 44, has a track record of pretending to be a registered nurse and has fooled at least two hospitals since April, according to Burbank police. 

Porter was arrested on Tuesday for pulling this stunt at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center from April to May before the truth behind her identity was discovered, authorities said.

By that point however, she had had been responsible for 60 patients. 

According to the hospital, Porter was 'promptly terminated once is was determined that her nursing credentials had been falsified.' 

She collected two paychecks from the hospital, according to officials.  

'I just think this disgusting,' a Providence St. Joseph visitor reacted to the situation to KTLA 5. 'To think that somebody's out there, spreading false information, false hope for people, it's just horrifying.'

She was most recently busted for allegedly using someone else's credentials - a registered nurse from out of state - to work at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita last month.

Henry Mayo said in a response statement: 'We do not have any indication that the quality of the care patients received was compromised.'

Porter now faces felony charges of identity theft, false impersonation and grand theft from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

It was also uncovered that she was on federal probation for fraud charges in Virginia.

In 2017, someone named Amanda Porter-Eley admittedly impersonated a nurse and committed bank fraud in Virginia, according to the US Department of Justice. 

The Burbank Police Department would not confirm if Porter was the same person as Porter-Eley due to ongoing investigations, they told the Los Angles Times. 

But the two identities were listed with the same ages and in court filings, Porter-Eley went by Amanda L. Porter. 

Porter-Eley started her fraudulent behavior in 2012, but 2015 is when she used a New York nurse's stolen identity to open up bank accounts. 

She received more than $450,000 in money, goods and loans, the US Department of Justice reported. She was arrested in 2016, but already caused banks and stores to lose more than $120,000. 

At the time, Porter-Eloy also pleaded guilty to opening bank accounts using other people's social security numbers. 

Porter will be arraigned on Wednesday and is being held at Los Angeles County Central regional Detention Facility in Lynwood without bail. 

This arrest comes after a Massachusetts woman was accused of making $1 million by posing as a nurse. 

The disgraced glamourous aesthetician Rebecca Fadanelli, 38, of Stoughton, who owns two spas in South Easton and Randolph, allegedly began offering illegal services in March 2021 after smuggling counterfeit drugs into the US.

Since then she has 'completed approximately 1,631 Botox appointments, totaling $522,869 in client payments, and 1,085 filler appointments, totaling $410,545 in client payments,' federal prosecutors said.

Fadanelli was arrested in early November for illegally smuggling goods into the US, sale or dispensing a counterfeit drug and sale or dispensing of a counterfeit device. 

In 2019, a bogus nurse admitted to administering a back-alley butt lift that killed a mother two years earlier. 

Allison Spence, 46, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and acting as a nurse without a license in the death of Latesha Bynum, 31, from Harlem, New York City.

Bynum attended Gramercy Park clinic for silicone buttock injections.

Kevin Richardson, the doctor who oversaw the running of the black-market clinic, had already pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter and three counts of unauthorized practice of a profession relating to the case.