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Rusty Cranford's request for pre-sentencing release taken under advisement

A federal magistrate in Springfield, Mo., today heard a request from Rusty Cranford to be released from jail pending his sentencing on his guilty plea to participating in the public corruption case involving Preferred Family Healthcare and kickbacks to Arkansas legislators.
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Bond hearing set next week for Rusty Cranford

A notice was issued today in federal court in Springdale, Mo., for a bond hearing at 1:30 p.m. Monday for Rusty Cranford, who's been jailed 18 months in Greene County awaiting sentencing for his role in the sprawling public corruption case involving Arkansas legislators.
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Corruption probe verite: The Cranford transcript and more from the Hutchinson case

Read the FBI interview with Rusty Cranford, the former lobbyist who's pleaded guilty to charges related to bribery of public officials, and other documents related to the investigation of former Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson.

State adds Medicaid fraud charge to agency owner

The attorney general's office has added a misdemeanor Medicaid fraud charge to its actions against Chirie Bazzelle, owner and CEO of New Beginnings Health Services, a Medicaid-financed services provider to children.
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Sentencing memo in public corruption case again alludes to other legislators

Pleadings filed this week in federal court in El Dorado offer competing views on sentencing of Jerry Walsh, the former head of South Arkansas Youth Services in Magnolia, who's pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to ensure favorable legislation.

More legal troubles for Jeremy Hutchinson, this time from someone with her own set of problems

For those attempting to keep score on former Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson's burgeoning legal problems, here's a copy of the lawsuit filed against him Monday for alleged legal malpractice and other alleged misdeeds.
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Health agency owner charged with Medicaid fraud

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has announced the arrest of Chirie Bazzelle, owner of New Beginnings Behavioral Health Services, on Medicaid fraud charges related in part to contracts with others arrested previously in the sprawling public corruption probe involving Preferred Family Healthcare.

More on the Missouri angle in public corruption probe

We mentioned here Thursday that Missouri public officials were players in the public corruption indictment naming former Arkansas Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson and two top former officials of Preferred Family Healthcare, the Springfield, Mo.-based nonprofit at the center of the investigation. Here's an Associated Press report from Missouri looking more closely at the Show Me State angle.
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Jeremy Hutchinson faces new indictment in bribery scheme with health provider

Former Republican state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, nephew of Gov. Asa Hutchinson, has been indicted in federal court in Missouri for taking pay from a health provider in return for legislative influence. His indictment was part of a broader action that reaches to the top of the multistate nonprofit at the center of a long-running public corruption probe.

Lawsuit over Jeremy Hutchinson's failed legal work settled

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette got the jump this morning on dismissal of a lawsuit over Jeremy Hutchinson's failed representation of a nonprofit health provider in Batesville.  I can explain what this likely signifies.
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Another guilty plea in Missouri in nonprofit scandal involving Arkansas legislators

Marilyn Nolan, the former CEO of Preferred Family Healthcare, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Springfield to a conspiracy charge.

Real estate listing removed for Rusty Cranford's million-dollar Florida beach house

As former lobbyist Rusty Cranford awaits sentencing on federal corruption charges, what will become of the $1.1 million beach house in Osprey, Florida, that Cranford purchased in October 2015?
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