A Fayette County man has pleaded guilty to fraud in a scheme involving a treatment program for homeless teenage girls in Henry County.
Leetra Dometric Langston, 40, was sentenced in Henry County Superior Court Wednesday to five years' probation and ordered to pay more than $20,000 in restitution for his role in a scheme involving the God's Promise Center, where he worked as intake director, said Lauren Kane, spokeswoman for the Georgia Attorney General's Office, which investigated the case.
Langston is the third person to be convicted in the case, along with God's Promise owner Stacey Watson and Pamela Besong, the home's program director.
Kane said that from May 2007 to April 2008, the three received nearly $600,000 in Medicaid payments using a provider's number from a local doctor whom they persuaded to serve on the home's board of directors, Kane said. There were no rehabilitative services provided at the home, said Kane, who noted that the doctor believed the home to be a legitimate treatment facility and never saw any patients there.
Besong, 44, pleaded guilty in May 2010 to one count of Medicaid fraud and was sentenced as a first offender to one year in prison and nine years' probation.
Watson pleaded guilty in January 2011 to one count of Medicaid fraud and one count of identity fraud and was sentenced to three years in prison and seven years' probation, Kane said. Watson and Besong were ordered to pay $593,508 in restitution to the Georgia Department of Community Health.
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