Bob Dean Jr. was charged Wednesday in Tangipahoa Parish with eight felony counts of cruelty to persons with infirmities, five felony counts of Medicaid fraud and two felony counts of obstruction of justice.
The charges came less than a year after more than 800 nursing home residents were evacuated on Aug. 27 to a former pesticide warehouse shortly before the hurricane made landfall. Conditions in the warehouse were later determined to be unsafe and inhumane, according to state health officials.
Investigators found Dean “refused to move his residents out of the warehouse following Hurricane Ida, billed Medicaid for dates his residents were not receiving proper care and engaged in conduct intended to intimidate or obstruct public health officials and law enforcement,” Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office said in a release.
