A state representative Thursday accused the former healthcare provider of Alabama prisons of fraud and sharply criticized the Alabama Department of Corrections’ relationship with a Montgomery-based law firm.
Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, said the events leading up to Tennessee-based company YesCare’s bankruptcy filing in May, after the state abruptly canceled a $1 billion contract in April with the firm, appeared to be fraud.
“Sounds like to me that you were deceived. The state of Alabama was deceived,” England said to Mary-Coleman Roberts, general counsel for the Alabama Department of Corrections. “Not only did they defraud the state, they defrauded each and every employee that they did not pay, so they should be prosecuted.”…