Press Releases: 2011

Guled Mohamed, a Somali non-resident alien, and Ladeidra Johnson, a former license examiner with the Georgia Department of Driver Services, pled guilty today in DeKalb County Superior Court to four counts of False Statement (O.C.G.A.

Kenneth A. Thisdale, a DeKalb County School System speech pathologist, pled guilty today in DeKalb County Superior Court to one count of Medicaid Fraud (O.C.G.A. § 49-4-146.1(b)) for a false billing scheme.

Gov. Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens announced today that the state of Georgia has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking federal approval, or preclearance, of the newly drawn state legislative and congressional plans.

On Thursday, October 6, 2011, Attorney General Sam Olens filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to halt a new, job-stifling regulation that will likely have severe economic repercussions on Georgia citize

The State of Georgia, together with 25 sister states, the NFIB and two individuals, today filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Supreme Court of the United States in the multi-state challenge to federal healthcare reform. Attorney General Olens released the following statement:

A Fulton County Grand Jury returned an indictment today against Kim Lamar Betts for his alleged participation in a scheme involving the fraudulent sales of residential properties in Fulton County.

Stephanie Gill, the co-defendant in a Jeff Davis County Medicaid Fraud case, pled guilty on September 12, 2011, in Jeff Davis County Superior Court to two misdemeanor counts of Theft by Taking (O.C.G.A. § 16-8-2). Between October 2006 and September 2009, Gill conspired with Robert W.

Attorney General Sam Olens announced today that Georgia has reached a settlement with Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc. Maxim, a home health agency based in Baltimore, Maryland, provides in-home nursing and home health aide services to people with disabilities in 41 states.

Former Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) employees Gene Tell of East Point, 36, and Kristy Nicole Williams of Decatur, 28, were sentenced today in federal district court before Judge Thomas Thrash on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and two counts of Wire Fraud relating

Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens offers the following information in the case against Troy Anthony Davis, who is currently scheduled to be executed on September 21, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Scheduled Execution