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Taxpayer-funded Drug Rehab Empire Collapses under Lawsuits, Indictments
Loaded on Sept. 2, 2016
by Joe Watson
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2016, page 58
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
Corrections Audits,
Drug Treatment/Rehab.
Location:
New York.
A purportedly non-profit organization run by a father-and-son team that operated methadone clinics and so-called “sober houses” across New York City faced indictments in October 2014 for stealing millions of dollars in public funds and fraudulent insurance claims.
Alan Brand, 64, and his son Jason, 35, who ran Narco Freedom ...
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