Nursing home larceny trial gets under way
Selecting of jury begins for Kingston resident charged with larceny and conspiracy
(Jan 21, 2009)
Gregory Logan, 44, and his uncles Joel K. Logan and Todd Logan were accused of plundering patient accounts and stealing tens of thousands of dollars from nursing home residents and employees.
Gregory Logan, of Kingston, the grandson of the nursing home business founders, Samuel and Florence Logan, was an administrator at Logan Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Braintree. He is charged with larceny and conspiracy.
Joel and Todd Logan pleaded guilty in July to misappropriating Medicaid funds, conspiracy, larceny, embezzlement and patient neglect. They were both put on probation for five years and ordered to pay a total of $150,000 restitution.
The Logan family once owned and operated one of the region’s largest and oldest nursing home enterprises: the Elihu White Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Braintree, the Pond Meadow Healthcare Facility in Weymouth, the Atrium Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Middleboro, the Crestview Healthcare Facility in Quincy and Logan Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
The trio raided nursing home accounts from January 2001 to June 2003, taking money for their personal use, Assistant Attorney General Ann Ackil said.
The brothers took $600,000 of the $34 million the nursing homes received from Medicare during the three years, Ackil said.
A judge put four of the Logans’ nursing homes into receivership in 2003 after state health officials said they were in danger of closing because of mismanagement. Workers’ paychecks bounced and vendors went unpaid, officials said. The Crestview Healthcare Facility was put into receivership in 2004.
The receiver closed two homes and sold three to other nursing home companies.
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