(Scripps News Detroit) — The owner of a Michigan facility who is charged in connection with a 5-year-old boy who died in a hyperbaric chamber explosion is now facing health care fraud charges.
FILE – Tamela Peterson appears in court. (Scripps News Detroit)
Tamela Peterson, 59, was charged with nine counts of Health Care Fraud – False Claim, according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Peterson is already facing second-degree murder charges after the death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper at The Oxford Center in Troy last January. Cooper was inside a hyperbaric chamber in the facility when it exploded…