Louisiana nursing home owner Bob Dean received a three-year probation sentence for sending 800 residents to a warehouse during Hurricane Ida, pleading no contest to 15 criminal charges.

Louisiana nursing home owner Bob Dean, who sent 800 residents to a squalid warehouse during Hurricane Ida in 2021, received a three-year probation sentence despite prosecutors calling for prison time. Dean pleaded no contest to 15 criminal charges, including cruelty to persons with infirmity, Medicaid fraud, and obstruction of justice. He must also pay over $355,000 in restitution to the state's Department of Health and $1 million as a monetary penalty.

July 22, 2024
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