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L’Amiens UC Badminton a entamé la phase retour du championnat de Pré-Nationale de la meilleure des manières, en l’emportant à domicile face à Lille (7-1). […]

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Nigerian King Must Pay $72k Restitution For Defrauding NC Medicaid During Pandemic Authored by Stephen Horn via The Triangle Trumpet, Ekelekamchukwu Alphonsus Ngwadom, 61, received a suspended sentence requiring three years probation and $72,014.66 in restitution after pleading guilty to twenty-seven felonies in regards to hundreds of Medicaid claims for children’s therapy he fraudulently filed in 2020 and 2021 at his Raleigh practice, Almarch Counseling. (¹, ², ³) Mugshot: Ekelekamchukwu Alphonsus Ngwadom It was during this same period that Ngwadom was crowned King or “Eze” of the Mbubu-Amiri kingdom in Nigeria’s Imo State, according to a local news source which also identified him as the Chairman of African Diaspora Coalition of North Carolina and Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Mount Olive. (There are many such “traditional rulers“ recognized by and holding limited power under the Federal Republic of Nigeria). Ngwadom is listed as the Director of Partnerships and Development for Nigerian Mental Health Practitioners USA and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nigeria-American Institute for Mental Health. Records show Ngwadom resides at a Garner address and has voted in Johnston County since 2008. Investigation and prosecution According to a search warrant obtained by the Medicaid Investigation Division of the North Carolina Department of Justice, Ngwadom’s practice was flagged by Alliance Health, the manager of the NC Medicaid plan for counties including Wake, Johnston, and Durham. Ngwadom’s fraud was revealed when a legitimate claim for therapy was submitted for one of the children for which he had filed fraudulent claims, and it was discovered that the family had never received services from Ngwadom or Almarch Counseling. In the ensuing investigation into the “overlapping services,” a total of 210 fraudulent claims were identified involving children from three families who never receiving services from Ngwadom or Almarch Counseling: fifty-two claims for two minor children for a total of $3,037.28 one hundred and three claims for three minor children for a total of $8,476.88 fifty-five claims for two minor children for a total of $3,529.46 At sentencing, the state prosecutor explained that Ngwadom had met these families through an after-school program in the years prior to the pandemic, as reported by the News & Observer. Although the search warrant was obtained and executed in 2022, the charges were not filled until January 2025. The total amount of fraudulent claims submitted by Ngwadom totaled $72,014.66 across 27 Medicaid recipients between February 18, 2020, and March 18, 2021, according to a press release by Attorney General Jeff Jackson. Ngwadom plead guilty to twenty-seven counts of obtaining property by false pretenses, a Class H felony, and received a sentence of 6-17 months incarceration, which was suspended with the following conditions: three years probation ninety days house arrest surrendering professional license one hundred hours community service $72,014.66 in restitution Zero stars: state inspections find repeat deficiencies at adult care facility Outside of his counseling practice, Ngwadom’s five-bed adult residential care facility Almarch Family Care in Rocky Mount has racked up numerous statements of deficiency and penalties from the NC Division of Health Service Regulation which licenses and inspects such facilities, which assigned AFC a rating of zero out of four stars at seven out of the last eight inspections. The NCDHSR website only lists penalties for the past 36 months, in which time AFC has racked up $35,200 in penalties, with $16,700 paid in full and the most recent $18,500 under appeal. Sixteen statements of deficiencies are listed for the nineteen inspections since 2015, with the most recent statement consisting of eighty-four pages detailing how the facility violated at least nine rules, including by failing to have certified staff, failing to meet…

Paulo Fonseca avait fait des pieds et des mains pour l'avoir au LOSC, après l'échec subi avec le FC Nantes pour Ludovic Blas durant l'été 2022, et Hakon Haraldsson avait finalement rejoint Lille en provenance du FC Copenhague. Le milieu offensif international islandais brille par sa capacité...