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Tue Jul 31, 2018, 03:57 AM Jul 2018

SC woman's $2 million healthcare fraud included speech therapy for the dead, prosecutor says

A South Carolina speech therapist could be sentenced to more than 30 years behind bars after being convicted of healthcare fraud, that included bogus claims of speech therapy for dead people, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Gena Randolph was convicted in federal court for a scheme where she stole $2 million from federal health care programs, according to a media release from U.S. Attorney Sherri A. Lydon.

This is not the first time the 44-year-old Mount Pleasant woman has been in trouble with the law.

According to jail records at the Al Cannon Detention Center, Randolph was arrested on a computer crime act charge in 2015. That crime exceeded $10,000, but the charge was dropped, according to court records, postandcourier.com reported.

Read more: https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article215807455.html

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