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Bakers booked for fraud, malfeasance
Two former employees of the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office have been booked for fraud and malfeasance in office for allegedly inappropriately billing the state for inmate counseling services in 2005 and 2006.
Charged were Cynthia L. Baker, 55, and Brian Keith Baker, 54, both of Hopkinsville, Ky. Each was booked with public payroll fraud, malfeasance in office and felony theft by use of fraud & misrepresentation
They were arrested in Kentucky, extradited to Concordia on Thursday and transferred to Baton Rouge.
Jennifer Roche, Public Information Office for the Attorney General's office, said Tuesday that the AG's office became involved in the case at the request of the Department of Health & Hospitals (DHH) following a DHH audit of Baker's company. Roche said AG lawyers report that an individual can't be paid by two different agencies for the same hours worked.
Randal Brinkhuls is the chief investigator in the probe.
An affidavit filed at the Clerk of Court's office by the AG's office says that Keith Baker was director of a company called 4-Bees Agency while he was employed by the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office as director of its drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.
A separate affidavit says his wife, Cynthia Baker, was also an employee of the sheriff's office and that Keith Baker was her supervisor.
Computerized billing records revealed that 4-Bees Agency billed DHH's "Access to Recovery Program for 87 patient assessments...for which he (Baker) was paid $4,450" between April 2005 and August 2006. A computer search of DHH billing records also revealed, the affidavit says, 1,600 computer entrees for services rendered by 4-Bees Agency during the same period.
Investigators then subpoenaed 4-Bee's billing records and inmate records from the sheriff's office and when comparing the records learned that 4-Bees Agency billed DHH "for providing drug and alcohol counseling to approximately 164 inmates while they were incarcerated in the Concordia Parish Jail. The Concordia Parish Sheriff had no knowledge of Brian Keith Baker, dba 4-Bees Agency, counseling inmates in the Concordia Parish Jail and billing" the Department of Health & Hospitals' Access to Recovery Program. |
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