Bob Glynn Dean Jr. of Louisiana, who pleaded no contest to cruelty to the infirmed, Medicaid fraud and other criminal charges, will avoid prison time if he successfully completes probation.
A Louisiana nursing home owner who sent more than 800 residents to a squalid warehouse with what the authorities called poor sanitation and inadequate food supplies while they braced for Hurricane Ida in 2021 was sentenced on Monday to three years’ probation, despite prosecutors’ calls for prison time.
The man, Bob Glynn Dean Jr., 70, pleaded no contest to the 15 criminal charges he faced, including cruelty to persons with infirmity, Medicaid fraud and obstruction of justice on Monday at the Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse in Amite, La.
Judge Brian Abels of the 21st Judicial District Court sentenced Mr. Dean to 20 years in prison, but deferred the sentence and placed him on probation for three years. Mr. Dean will not have to serve any time behind bars if he successfully completes his probation.
Mr. Dean was also ordered to pay more than $355,000 in restitution to the state’s Department of Health and more than one million dollars as a monetary penalty to the state’s Department of Justice.
Liz Murrill, the Louisiana attorney general, said in a statement on Monday that prosecutors had “urged that Mr. Dean be held accountable for his conduct” and asked that he be sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison.
“I respect our judicial system, and that the judge has the ultimate discretion over the appropriate sentence,” Mr. Murrill said. “But I remain of the opinion that Dean should be serving prison time.”
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