Guilty plea in theft from GU hospital

A former Georgetown University Hospital employee has pleaded guilty to stealing money from a hospital-based non-profit foundation, WUSA 9 reports.

Frankie Renee Kennedy of Largo pleaded guilty Monday to stealing $86,286 from the Transplant Institute Foundation, which was based at the hospital from 2005 through 2009. She wrote checks to herself from the foundation's bank account, using a doctor's signature stamp without the doctor's permission, according to evidence presented at the plea hearing.

Kennedy, 35, is scheduled to be sentenced in February. She faces a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment.