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N. CAROLINA TO PAY $23.8M TO RESOLVE OVERBILLING ALLEGATIONS FORSTATES FOSTER CARE & CHILDCARE SERVICES



 
 
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Default N. CAROLINA TO PAY $23.8M TO RESOLVE OVERBILLING ALLEGATIONS FORSTATES FOSTER CARE & CHILDCARE SERVICES

N. CAROLINA TO PAY $23.8M TO RESOLVE OVERBILLING ALLEGATIONS FOR STATES
FOSTER CARE & CHILDCARE SERVICES

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_1007958931

WASHINGTON, D.C. - North Carolina has agreed to pay the United States
$23.8 million to resolve multiple allegations of False Claims Act
violations, as well as administrative violations, concerning federal
funding of the states foster care and childcare services, the Justice
Department announced today.

North Carolina has agreed to resolve allegations that the State Division
of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse
knowingly billed the federal government for costs that were ineligible
for federal foster care training funds. The settlement agreement also
resolves allegations outlined in reports by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General that North
Carolina committed administrative violations by failing to document its
actual costs spent on day care services.


"The Department of Justice is committed to preventing the fraud, waste
and abuse of taxpayer dollars and ensuring recovery of funds intended to
benefit our nation's children," said Peter D. Keisler, Assistant
Attorney General for the Civil Division.

According to the terms of the settlement agreement, the state has agreed
to make cash payments totaling $20 million, agreed to a disallowance of
federal funding in the amount of $3.8 million and agreed to implement a
new record-keeping system for identifying child care expenditures.

In 2002, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of North
Carolina criminally prosecuted Dr. Lenore Behar, the former Chief of the
Child and Family Section of the Division of Mental Health. Behar was
indicted for her role in mischarging foster care training funds and was
subsequently convicted of obstruction of justice.

Todays settlement resolves every foster care training claim submitted by
the Division of Mental Health during the tenure of Lenore Behar, said
Frank D. Whitney, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North
Carolina in Raleigh. Whitney applauded the settlement for recovering
funds meant to help North Carolinas children, that were instead spent on
things like international travel, the renovation of a college building
in another country, and the construction of a statue of a foreign leader.

Attorneys of the Justice Departments Civil Division and U.S. Attorneys
Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, with assistance from
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of General
Counsel, negotiated this civil matter.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Defense Criminal
Investigative Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Inspector General and the Defense Contract Audit Agency also
provided investigative support.





An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

Perpetrators of Maltreatment

Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.

THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST

Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6

This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.

http://www.jbs.org/node/4632

Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail

FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc

HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN

http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html

Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News

http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm

A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca

30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed

Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support

80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.

This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.

Front-page story in USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close

Read the studies online.

Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"

http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm

MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"

http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf

Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports:

www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren

The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...

CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...

BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
 




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