A Charlotte business owner was sentenced to 48 months in prison for submitting fraudulent bills to the North Carolina Medicaid Program for services that were never provided, federal authorities announced.
The defendant, Crystal Sherrell Jackson, 40, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell to pay $1,623,983.08 in restitution.
Jackson pleaded guilty in March 2026 to healthcare fraud and transactional money laundering. Her sentencing was announced Aug. 27 by Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina…