A Twin Cities psychologist is going to prison for falsely collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community for counseling services he did not provide.
Charles Howard Jorenby, 58, of Chanhassen, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in St. Paul to two years in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to felony health care fraud for a billing scheme that spanned more than seven years involving his business, Life Dynamics Inc. in Prior Lake.
As part of his guilty plea, Jorenby admitted to an additional fraudulent claim to State Farm Insurance in 2017 following a fire at his business office. Jorenby said he inflated his lost-income claim to include earnings associated with his fraudulent billings, totaling an additional $104,930.
Judge Susan Richard Nelson's sentence also included an order that he repay the Mdewakanton Sioux the $819,000 he stole from the band and the full amount he illegally collected from State Farm.
Ahead of sentencing, prosecutors argued in a court filing for Jorenby to be sent to prison for anywhere from 2 12 to slightly more than three years in prison.
"For many years, he prioritized his family's material comfort and security over the integrity of his professional licensure," the filing noted, "and he appears to have paid no thought to either the individual Native American people whose identities he used or the broader Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community whose funds he stole."
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