The New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller filed a lawsuit Monday against the ownership group of two troubled South Jersey nursing homes, seeking to recover millions in what it said were “misspent and concealed Medicaid Funds.”
The action came after the watchdog agency found what it called “a troubling pattern of mismanagement, self-dealing, and profiteering” at Deptford Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare and Hammonton Center, which share ownership.
The lawsuit in Superior Court in Mercer County named New York owners Daryl Hagler and his next-door neighbor and friend, Kenneth Rozenberg. The two have ties to 46 nursing homes in four states. The lawsuit also named other members of their families and associates…