Shreveport couple defrauded Medicaid for luxurious life-style

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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — A pair from Shreveport has been arrested for allegedly defrauding Medicaid of $127,000 to assist fund a lavish life-style.

42-year-old Ebony Taylor and her husband, 39-year-old Andre Jackson, have been arrested in Baton Rouge on Wednesday, September 11, for allegedly concealing their precise revenue and employment to obtain medicaid advantages. An investigation revealed that Taylor financed a BMW for $80,024 in 2022 with month-to-month funds of $1,480. That similar yr, the couple put in an in-ground swimming pool with a jetted spa at their house for $94,000, along with a beauty surgical procedure in Texas.

“It’s pretty bold to buy a new pool, BMW, and plastic surgery while defrauding our Medicaid program. The hardworking men and women of Louisiana paid for their extravagant lifestyle, and now they’ll be brought to justice,” mentioned Attorney General Liz Murrill.

Taylor fraudulently utilized for and obtained Medicaid advantages for herself and her dependents between 2017 and 2025. According to the Louisiana Department of Health, which reported the legal exercise, Taylor repeatedly reported an revenue of $750 bi-weekly and didn’t disclose her marital standing and mixed family revenue along with her husband.

He additionally utilized for and obtained medicaid advantages across the similar time, claiming no revenue from 2017 by means of 2023. However, Taylor reported a month-to-month revenue of $15,000 in a mortgage mortgage utility and disclosed a checking account stability of $350,000.

Financial data additionally confirmed yearly incomes of a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars}. There have been additionally funds spent on varied objects, together with jewellery, holidays, inns, a bridal retailer, furnishings, and orthodontics, amongst others. It was additionally famous that the 2 owned a number of properties and had a considerable quantity of monetary property that weren’t in step with medicaid eligibility. Those property included a one-acre tract of land in Caddo Parish the place they constructed a big residence, which data present has a taxable property worth of $656,270.