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Biggest Scoops (40 Years of Arkansas Business)
A scoop is a story so important that other news organizations are forced to follow. Here are some of our biggest. read more >
Jeremy Hutchinson Sentenced to 50 Months for Corruption
The sentence adds to prison time he received in December for tax fraud. He now faces eight years behind bars. read more >
Nonprofit Health Execs Plead Guilty in Arkansas Bribery Case
Under the terms of their respective plea agreements, they must forfeit to the government up to $4.3 million. read more >
Jeremy Hutchinson Sentencing On Hold
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson – who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Ben Burris and other federal crimes – will likely have to wait until other defendants in his case resolve their trial. read more >
Quapaw House Faces Foreclosure
Quapaw House Inc., the troubled Hot Springs drug and alcohol treatment provider that is no longer operating, recently entered into a consent judgment for $1.43 million with Relyance Bank. read more >
Attorney General Announces $6.5M in Settlements with Preferred Family Healthcare
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Thursday $6.5 million in settlements with Preferred Family Healthcare of Springfield, Missouri, the result of an investigation conducted by her office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. read more >
Coronavirus Delays Sentencing in Jeremy Hutchinson Case
It turns out that the pandemic is the reason that former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, nephew of Gov. Asa Hutchinson, still has not been sentenced more than a year after his guilty plea read more >
Quapaw House Insolvent, Former Receiver Says
Quapaw House Inc., the troubled Hot Springs drug and alcohol treatment provider, has no employees, no open locations and no receiver nowadays, a lawyer for the company says, though it does have more than $13 million in debt. read more >
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New Beginnings CEO Chirie Bazzelle Pleads Guilty to Obstruction
Chirie Bazzelle, owner and CEO of New Beginnings Behavioral Health Services, has reached a plea agreement with the state attorney general's office involving a misdemeanor charge of obstructing governmental operations, the office says. read more >
Quapaw House Sued for $2.6M
Troubled Quapaw House Inc. of Hot Springs recently received more bad news. read more >
Receiver Appointed in Quapaw House Case
A receiver was appointed last week to take control of the troubled Quapaw House Inc. of Hot Springs. read more >
Quapaw House, Successor to Preferred Family Healthcare, Has Woes of Its Own
Robert Lewis saw warning signs during his short time as a director of Quapaw House Inc., the Hot Springs nonprofit organization that acquired the assets of scandal-plagued Preferred Family Healthcare a year and a half ago. read more >
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A Higher Purpose (Editorial)
When did health care become just a business, a revenue generator like any other? read more >
Jeremy Hutchinson Pleads Guilty in Missouri Corruption Case
Former Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson admits accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to help a health nonprofit as part of a plea deal in a sprawling federal corruption investigation. read more >
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Jeremy Hutchinson Faces New Corruption Charges in Missouri
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson has been indicted and accused of accepting bribes from a Missouri nonprofit in a widening federal corruption probe. read more >
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A Surrender of Oversight (Editorial)
The story about the mental health services provider that ripped off both taxpayers and the mentally ill reveals what happens when bureaucrats and lawmakers surrender their oversight duties to highly conflicted parties. read more >
Who’s the Boss (Editorial)
Everyone knows the reason for a lobbyist's existence: to persuade lawmakers to do what the lobbyist wants him to do. But when lobbyists actually pay lawmakers — well, that’s influence of a whole other magnitude. read more >
Quapaw House Completes Acquisition of PFH Clinics
Quapaw House Inc. of Hot Springs finalizes plans to acquire the Arkansas assets of Preferred Family Healthcare of Springfield, Missouri, the scandal-plagued behavioral health provider that was cut off from state Medicaid payments earlier this year. read more >
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How Quapaw Is Picking Up Preferred Family Healthcare’s Pieces
The end of Preferred Family Healthcare’s implosion in Arkansas, which jolted the state’s Medicaid service industry and scarred its political landscape, came not with a bang, but with a text. read more >
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Chocolate and Peanut Butter (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
I have a couple of favorite topics: white-collar crime and personal finance. A story that combines the two is as irresistible as chocolate and peanut butter. read more >
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