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Holmes County Contractor Arrested for Defrauding Medicaid
10/21/09 - 03:33 PM

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Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Holmes County man has been arrested for defrauding the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $33,000. Robert Greenlee, owner of Greenlee and Sons Construction in Bonifay, was arrested today by officers with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office on a warrant from the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit discovered the fraud after receiving complaints from the Council on Aging of West Florida about home modifications for Medicaid recipients – modifications that had been contracted out to Greenlee’s company. Greenlee, 68, was not a licensed contractor for the counties in which he was working, and building inspectors often found his modifications did not meet industry standards or code. Greenlee also employed unlicensed workers, a violation of industry regulations.

According to investigators, Greenlee consistently billed for work before projects were completed, a practice unauthorized by the Medicaid program. The Council on Aging reported it had received numerous complaints about completed projects, of which the majority were completed with extremely poor quality work. Investigators also believe that, on two occasions, Greenlee billed Medicaid in advance for projects on which he never worked.

Greenlee is charged with one count of organized scheme to defraud and one count of wire fraud, both third-degree felonies. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The case will be prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit through the State Attorney’s Office for the First Judicial Circuit.