On July 23, 2025, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Bureau of Criminal Investigation requested health care agencies and providers in Pennsylvania to review their employment records due to an investigation of suspected fraudulent activities involving Shannon Nicole Womack.
Womack is alleged to have used at least 10 aliases to pose as a licensed practical nurse (LPN), registered nurse (RN), and registered nurse supervisor at rehabilitation and nursing home facilities in various regions across Pennsylvania. She is charged with securing the nursing positions through staffing agencies by submitting fraudulently signed documents and also by creating a false LLC to deploy herself to jobs. Reports indicate Womack worked at each of these jobs for only a short time.
The PSP is working with the Department of Health, Department of State, and multiple district attorneys and states in the ongoing investigation.
Investigators confirmed Womack used the following aliases in various parts of the state:
- Shannon Nicole Parham
- Shannon Nicole Abiola
- Shannon Nicole Armstrong
- Shannon Abiola-Parham
- Shannon Nicole Grimes
- Shannon Nicole Womack
- Shannon Nicole Lawson
- Shannon Nicole Lethco
- Shannon Nicole Robinson
- Shannon Lee Lawson
Womack is charged with Corrupt Organizations, Endangering the Welfare of Care, Unlawful Use of a Computer, Identity Theft, Forgery, Theft by Unlawful Taking, and multiple other charges. Criminal charges are merely allegations, and all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
On July 25, 2025, the Pennsylvania State Police asked for the public’s help in determining Womack’s legal name: “Due to the uncovering of additional false identities since being taken into custody, PSP is seeking the public’s help with ongoing investigations and are sharing recent images of her in order to positively identify her legal name.”
The New York Times reported on July 24, 2025: “For five years, the authorities say, a woman named Shannon worked at about 20 nursing homes and rehabilitation centers across at least four states, tending to patients … The police charged the woman as Shannon Nicole Womack, the name she eventually gave after her arrest on April 5. The Pennsylvania driver’s license she handed to a state trooper after being pulled over identified her as Shannon Nicole Lawson, 39. Fingerprinting added to the puzzle. According to court records, running her prints through a computer system yielded yet another name: Shannon Nicole Robinson. “We know who we have, but maybe not every letter of her name is in the right place,” Trooper Rocco Gagliardi, a state police spokesman, said.”
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