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2025-10-18 Government Corruption
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Egregious Medicaid Fraud in NC. Bonus: Perp is an ex felon
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[Yahoo] Charlotte activist took advantage of the homeless to steal millions, feds say
Federal investigators accuse Charlotte community activist Cedric Dean of exploiting homeless people to defraud Medicaid out of millions of dollars. Dean used the money to buy homes, cars and fund his lifestyle, feds said, and now they’re moving to seize those assets.
Dean has been well-documented through the years and founded “Sons Against Violence Everywhere.”
He’s also a self-proclaimed homeless advocate and helped youth stay away from violence.
Dean has bought single-family homes to turn into group homes and ran a program at a hotel where he said he tried to provide food, shelter, and treatment to people in need.
But Dean is accused of taking advantage of the system and people.
Dean obtained Medicaid information from people at homeless shelters and turned it into money for himself, court documents said.
Dean used millions of dollars he obtained fraudulently, feds said. They said he used that money for houses and vehicles, and they now want to take them away.
Now the federal government wants to hold Dean accountable.
In June, Channel 9 met to do an interview in front of the community activist’s house on Youngblood Road in the Palisades neighborhood.
Months later, the FBI paid a visit to that home on Thursday.
They want the government to seize it saying he bought it with money tied to a healthcare and Medicaid fraud scheme.
Feds said they spoke to eight witnesses who either worked or lived in one of Dean’s properties. They told investigators that he and his workers would get Medicaid information from people living on the street or in homeless encampments.
Dean used that information to submit claims for services that were not provided, the feds said. In one case, they said he claimed to have provided 54 services for someone who was dead.
Cedric Dean Holdings billed the Medicaid program at least $14.5 million from September 2024 to June 2025 and received nearly $9 million, investigators said.
Some of the money was routed to accounts that were used to pay for cars and houses.iu&
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