Home aide’s 300G ‘theft’

A scheming home health aide and former “Jeopardy!” contestant was busted for stealing more than $300,000 from an elderly couple — and using the cash on pricey ballet tickets and trips to Florida, authorities said.

Winston Nguyen, 30, was hired in 2009 to help a 96-year-old blind man and his 92-year-old wife with day-to-day tasks, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.

Starting in 2015 until his arrest, Nguyen allegedly used the couple’s bank account and credit cards to make $100,000 in purchases and cash withdrawals, prosecutors charge.

He also allegedly wrote himself $200,000 in checks and opened lines of credit with their information totaling $35,000, officials said.

The 2014 game-show contestant masked his misdeeds by diverting the couple’s bank statements to his home, then doctoring them to remove his purchases, the DA’s office said.

Prosecutors said Nguyen, a lover of the arts, used the stolen funds for regular jaunts to the ballet and Broadway shows. He also took his pals on vacations to Florida on the couple’s dime, prosecutors said.

The couple’s daughterin-law discovered the alleged theft and called cops.

Nguyen pleaded not guilty Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court to 32 counts of grand larceny, possession of stolen property, identity theft and other raps. He was released without bail.