LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The U.S. Attorney in Louisville says the founder of a therapy center has been charged in a scheme to defraud the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice and the federal government.
An indictment charging 61-year-old Clifford Frank “Jay” Wilkinson was unsealed on Thursday. It says Wilkinson and a former employee, 39-year-old Erica Beth Bowen, together falsified attendance records at the Bluegrass Training and Therapy Center by allegedly forging the signatures of youths.
A release from the U.S. Attorney’s office says an investigation found 8,000 instances of falsified sign-ins from 2012 to 2015. The indictment says Wilkinson, the center’s founder, and Bowen, a former employee, fraudulently obtained more than $400,000 in payments.
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If convicted at trial, Wilkerson and Bowen could be sentenced up to 20 years in prison.
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