Ga AG Chris Carr to speak at UGA

State Attorney General Chris Carr is in Athens this evening: he will speak to UGA College Republicans in a 6:30 session at the University of Georgia’s Miller Learning Center.  Carr’s visit to Athens comes on the heels of a major investigation that led to arrests for elder abuse.

From the AJC...

Three people have been arrested on allegations that they confined 14 elderly or disabled adults in middle Georgia residences, denying them food and stealing their government benefit payments, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said the defendants participated in "an organized web of abuse" by targeting the elderly in Albany and Macon.

The victims “were begging for food” and didn’t receive adequate medical treatment at Miracle One Care Center Inc., an unlicensed personal care home, Carr said.

“They are dungeons where elderly and disabled persons are warehoused so that their benefits can be syphoned off,” said GBI Director Vernon Keenan. “They’re neglected. They’re abused. They’re financially exploited.”

A 17-count indictment, issued Dec. 13, accuses the defendants of racketeering, neglect, exploitation and operating an unlicensed personal care home. It alleges that they fraudulently obtained benefits from Social Security and Medicaid, the state-federal health care program for the poor and disabled.