The owner of seven nursing homes in Louisiana has been arrested on state fraud and cruelty charges after evacuating over 800 elderly residents to a squalid warehouse prior to Hurricane Ida last year, where seven residents eventually died.
Bob Glynn Dean Jr., 68, of Thomaston, Georgia, has been charged in Louisiana’s 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,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a statement on Wednesday.
Dean was out of state when he allegedly ordered employees to shift the residents in Baton Rouge to the warehouse located in Independence, roughly 70 miles northwest of New Orleans, on Aug. 26, 2021. The transfer was done in preparation for adverse weather conditions in the wake of Hurricane Ida….