Joseph Schwartz, the New York state owner of the failed Arkansas nursing home chain, Skyline Health Care, who is facing tax and Medicaid fraud charges in Arkansas, has been ordered to pay the family of a Little Rock woman who died in one of his facilities $15.7 million for neglect and wrongful death.
Joseph Schwartz, the New York state owner of the failed Arkansas nursing home chain, Skyline Health Care, who is facing tax and Medicaid fraud charges in Arkansas, has been ordered to pay the family of a Little Rock woman who died in one of his facilities $15.7 million for neglect and wrongful death.
Sentencing papers filed Thursday show that Alanis Devlyn Deshea Hodges pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in exchange for the five-year term imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Karen Whatley for fatally striking 30-year-old Katie Breanna Griffiths with a car in May 2021 in the 5300 block of Camp Robinson Road. Hodges faced up to 20 years on the Class B felony charge.
Pulaski County prosecutors are calling for the arrest of a 20-year-old capital murder suspect, claiming that he violated his bond conditions last week when Faulkner County sheriff s deputies found him with a misdemeanor amount of marijuana.