ST. LOUIS – A Webster Groves-based nonprofit that provides services for troubled youth and foster children in Missouri will pay a $1.8 million fine after false claims about the services it provided.
Great Circle agreed to a series of compliance measures Friday. Federal officials say the agency made false statements, overbilling the state for services to young people at its residential treatment facility.
“Great Circle falsely submitted bills for services it did not provide but were needed by the children,” said Special Agent in Charge Jay Greenberg of the FBI St. Louis Division. “Prioritizing profit over safety can put already vulnerable children in peril.”
“In this non-prosecution agreement, Great Circle admits falsely claiming to have provided enhanced supervision to youth at its residential treatment facility in claims for payment to the State of Missouri,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Meredith Reiter, who is leading the team that worked on the case. “A cascade of issues can arise from inadequate supervision, particularly for children with such intensive need for treatment and assistance.”
Reiter said Great Circle will not be criminally prosecuted and will continue to operate because it cooperated with the investigation and to avoid jeopardizing access to resident treatment services for its clients.
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