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 >
The sentence adds to prison time he received in December for tax fraud. He now faces eight years behind bars. read more >
Under the terms of their respective plea agreements, they must forfeit to the government up to $4.3 million. read more >
Preferred Family Healthcare will forfeit the majority of the amount to the federal government. read more >
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 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 >
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 >
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 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 >
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 >
Troubled Quapaw House Inc. of Hot Springs recently received more bad news. read more >
A receiver was appointed last week to take control of the troubled Quapaw House Inc. of Hot Springs. read more >
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 >
Federal prosecutors have recommended a reduced sentence for a New Jersey political consultant caught in an Arkansas political corruption case. read more >
Milton R. "Rusty" Cranford was sentenced to seven years in prison, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Missouri. read more >
When did health care become just a business, a revenue generator like any other? read more >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
A third former employee with a Missouri-based nonprofit mental health provider has been arrested on state charges of defrauding Arkansas' Medicaid program. read more >
