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Kosciusko attorney finally sentenced; no judgement filed
Kosciusko attorney Jim Davis Hull was sentenced by the U.S. District Federal Court on June 15, according to court clerk’s office on the Gulf Coast today.
However, it is unknown the weight of the sentence since no judgement had filed with the clerk’s office.
Hull plead guilty to three counts of false statement relating to health care matters April 2008 and his sentencing has been delayed multiple times.
According to court records a motion to downward depart was filed and granted to lessen his sentence.
Hull was arrested by the FBI and charged with 19 counts of health care fraud, including conspiracy charges, associated with his partial ownership and operation of Mississippi Care Partners, Inc., Oct. 2, 2007. Pamela Hull of Moss Point, Jacqualine Crawley of North Carolina and Cheniqua G. Ellis of Franklin, Tenn., were also charged in the indictment.
Pamela Hull and Jacqualine Crawley were found guilty in January on 15 counts of health care fraud.
Mississippi Care Partners, Inc. claimed to provide medical services to Medicare and Medicaid patients in their Moss Point and Cleveland offices.
The indictments by the Grand Jury for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and the arrests were the results of a FBI and Department of Health and Human Services – Officer of the Inspector General two-year investigation.
According to the FBI, the case was initiated as a result of allegations that the MCP and Rehabilicare, Inc. were conducting business as the two medical institutions conspired to use non-licensed employees to falsely bill Medicaid and Medicare for ineligible and non-reimbursable physical therapy/physical medical services and to be paid for same.
Hull was granted a leave of absence as public defender for the City of Kosciusko and Attala County shortly after he was charged.
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