Glenn Pair, Medicaid Fraud, South Carolina 2021

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Georgia man, Glenn Pair, has been sentenced to prison for participating in a scheme that defrauded the Medicaid programs in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia of more than $5 million, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

In October 2021, Pair pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud in connection with the three federal prosecutions. Pair also pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy offense in the Western District of North Carolina. Today's sentence resolves all three federal criminal actions against the defendant.

According to filed court documents and today's sentencing hearing, Pair and his co-conspirator, Markuetric Stringfellow, owned and operated an after-school and youth mentoring program known as Do-It-4-The Hood Corporation (D4H). From January 2016 through November 2018, Pair and Stringfellow paid individuals to recruit at-risk youths, in particular children who were Medicaid eligible in North Carolina, for their D4H program.

Once enrolled, children were required to submit urine specimens for drug testing. Pair and Stringfellow conspired with certain laboratories to perform the drug testing of the enrolled children's urine specimens and received kickbacks once the laboratories were reimbursed by the North Carolina Medicaid.

The South Carolina scheme involved Wrights Care Services LLC (Wrights Care), a qualified provider of Medicaid rehabilitative behavioral health services in South Carolina. Pair and Stringfellow became owners of a Wrights Care franchise in Columbia, South Carolina. Starting in or around 2014, Pair and Stringfellow defrauded the South Carolina Medicaid program by filing fraudulent claims for mental health counseling or other services that were either not provided, partially provided, or did not qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.

Pair was sentenced to 70 months in prison and two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a total of $5,078,444 as restitution.

U.S. Attorney King is joined in making today's announcement by Adair Ford Boroughs, U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina, Ryan K. Buchanan, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, Robert R. Wells, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in North Carolina, and Donald 'Trey' Eakins, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, Charlotte Field Office (IRS-CI).

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/georgia-man-sentenced-prison-defrauding-medicaid-programs-three-states